Martian Arts
Jonathan Raban, 23 July 1987
The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper
by Blake Morrison.
Chatto, 48 pp., £4.95, May 1987,0 7011 3227 2 Show More
by Blake Morrison.
Chatto, 48 pp., £4.95, May 1987,
“... about us – James Fenton’s ‘A German Requiem’, Anne Stevenson’s ‘Correspondences’, Blake Morrison’s ‘The Inquisitor’, Motion’s ‘Independence’, the plotty, tessellated pattern of the poems in Carol Rumens’s Direct Dialling, with its East-West love story. One sees rhyme used, as Byron used it in Don Juan, to speed the ... ”