Letter
Terrible Truth
9 January 1992
Pace Stan Smith’s review of my slim volume of poetry, Spilt Milk (LRB, 9 January): I’m an Irish bastard, not an Irish orphan.
Sarah Maguire
Sarah Maguire is the only living English-language poet with a book in print in Arabic - her selected poems, Haleeb Muraq, translated by Saadi Yousef.
Pieces about Sarah Maguire in the LRB
Imagining the Suburbs
Stan Smith, 9 January 1992
Whole systems of thought have been founded on the French language’s inability to distinguish differing from deferring. Perhaps Napoleon is to blame (‘Not tonight, Josephine’)....
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