Out of the blue

Mark Ford

  • Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon
    Faber, 53 pp, £9.95, May 1987, ISBN 0 571 14858 1
  • Partingtime Hall by James Fenton and John Fuller
    Salamander, 69 pp, £7.50, April 1987, ISBN 0 948681 05 5
  • Private Parts by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
    Chatto, 72 pp, £4.95, June 1987, ISBN 0 7011 3206 X
  • Bright River Yonder by John Hartley Williams
    Bloodaxe, 87 pp, £4.95, April 1987, ISBN 1 85224 028 8

So characteristic of Paul Muldoon’s poetry as to be almost a hallmark is the moment, unnerving and exciting in about equal measures, when his speaker is suddenly revealed to himself as someone else. The whole world expands and changes in ‘Cass and Me’ when, as a boy, he climbs on the older Cass’s shoulders, and they lean out

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