Venisti tandem
Denis Donoghue, 7 February 1985
Dangerous play: Poems 1974-1984
by Andrew Motion.
Salamander, 110 pp., £8.95, October 1984,0 907540 56 2 Show More
by Andrew Motion.
Salamander, 110 pp., £8.95, October 1984,
An Umbrella from Piccadilly
by Jaroslav Seifert and Ewald Osers.
London Magazine Editions, 80 pp., £5, November 1984,0 904388 75 1 Show More
by Jaroslav Seifert and Ewald Osers.
London Magazine Editions, 80 pp., £5, November 1984,
“... The poems are functions of a native language, gifts of English as defined, say, by Hardy and Edward Thomas, but when we’re reading them we don’t think of them in that way: we think of them as translucent to what they have perceived and only verbal in the last resort and by the way. Even in ‘The Whole Truth’, where the truth lies bleeding ... ”