Callaloo
Robert Crawford, 20 April 1989
A Field of Vision
by Charles Causley.
Macmillan, 68 pp., £10.95, September 1988,0 333 48229 8 Show More
by Charles Causley.
Macmillan, 68 pp., £10.95, September 1988,
Seeker, Reaper
by George Campbell Hay and Archie MacAlister.
Saltire Society, 30 pp., £15, September 1988,0 85411 041 0 Show More
by George Campbell Hay and Archie MacAlister.
Saltire Society, 30 pp., £15, September 1988,
In Through the Head
by William McIlvanney.
Mainstream, 192 pp., £9.95, September 1988,1 85158 169 3 Show More
by William McIlvanney.
Mainstream, 192 pp., £9.95, September 1988,
The New British Poetry
edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D’Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram.
Paladin, 361 pp., £6.95, September 1988,0 586 08765 6 Show More
edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D’Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram.
Paladin, 361 pp., £6.95, September 1988,
Complete Poems
by Martin Bell, edited by Peter Porter.
Bloodaxe, 240 pp., £12.95, August 1988,1 85224 043 1 Show More
by Martin Bell, edited by Peter Porter.
Bloodaxe, 240 pp., £12.95, August 1988,
First and Always: Poems for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
edited by Lawrence Sail.
Faber, 69 pp., £5.95, October 1988,0 571 55374 5 Show More
edited by Lawrence Sail.
Faber, 69 pp., £5.95, October 1988,
“... such as Gillian Allnutt’s ‘Alien’, Eavan Boland’s ‘The Oral Tradition’, Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Telephoning home’ and ‘Foreign’, Selima Hill’s ‘Crossing the Desert in a Pram’, Maria Jastrzebska’s ‘Bi-lingual’, and Evangeline Paterson’s ‘Dispossessed’. There is some very interesting work here, and the star poem has to ... ”