Making sense

Denis Donoghue

A Wave by John Ashbery
Carcanet, 89 pp, £4.95, August 1984, ISBN 0 85635 547 X
Secret Narratives by Andrew Motion
Salamander, 46 pp, £6.00, March 1983, ISBN 0 907540 29 5
Liberty Tree by Tom Paulin
Faber, 78 pp, £4.00, June 1983, ISBN 0 05 711302 5
111 Poems by Christopher Middleton
Carcanet, 185 pp, £5.95, April 1983, ISBN 0 85635 457 0
New and Selected Poems by James Michie
Chatto, 64 pp, £3.95, September 1983, ISBN 0 7011 2723 6
By the Fisheries by Jeremy Reed
Cape, 79 pp, £4.00, March 1984, ISBN 0 224 02154 0
Voyages by George Mackay Brown
Chatto, 48 pp, £3.95, September 1983, ISBN 0 7011 2736 8

In ‘A Wave’, the title-poem of his new collection, John Ashbery says, among many other things:

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