DiaryIan HamiltonThis article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001. Other articles by this contributor: How much? · literary pay and literary prizes The Power of Des · Ian Hamilton writes about the screen rights to English Premier League Football Snoop Doggy Dogg for Laureate · Poets Laureate Sorry to go on like this · Kingsley Amis France ’98 · Ian Hamilton watches the World Cup |