Davie’s Rap
Neil Corcoran, 25 January 1990
Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960-1988
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 261 pp., £18.95, October 1989,0 85635 820 7 Show More
by Donald Davie.
Carcanet, 261 pp., £18.95, October 1989,
The boys who stole the funeral: A Novel Sequence
by Les Murray.
Carcanet, 71 pp., £6.95, October 1989,0 85635 845 2 Show More
by Les Murray.
Carcanet, 71 pp., £6.95, October 1989,
“... take confirmation in it from the other books under review. Charles Tomlinson’s Annunciations and Peter Porter’s Possible Worlds share Renaissance Virgins for cover illustrations. Tomlinson’s is Lorenzo Lotto’s Annunciation, in which the angel has just leapt spectacularly over the balcony, terrifying the cat, to make his declaration to an overcome and ... ”