Main Man
Michael Hofmann, 7 July 1994
Walking Possession: Essays and Reviews 1968-1993
by Ian Hamilton.
Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £20, May 1994,0 7475 1712 6 Show More
by Ian Hamilton.
Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £20, May 1994,
“... too. Greetings, borrowers. What I admire – not the word – about the poems is their intensity. John Berryman once said: write as short as you can, in order, of what matters. Surely no one – least of all Berryman himself – can have fulfilled the terms of that prescription as scrupulously as Hamilton. The majority of the poems are generated by one of two ... ”