Michael Hofmann on the steady state of Patricia Beer
Michael Hofmann, 18 September 1980
Nostalgia for the Present
by Andrei Voznesensky.
Oxford, 150 pp., £3.50, April 1980,0 19 211900 1 Show More
by Andrei Voznesensky.
Oxford, 150 pp., £3.50, April 1980,
Reflections on the Nile
by Ronald Bottrall.
London Magazine Editions, 56 pp., £3.50, May 1980,0 904388 33 6 Show More
by Ronald Bottrall.
London Magazine Editions, 56 pp., £3.50, May 1980,
“... ecstasy. I hope to hear much more of it. At first it seems improbable that The Venetian Vespers by Anthony Hecht should be able to sustain the weight of its three epigraphs: one from King Lear, one from Moby Dick and one by Beethoven. And indeed, Hecht’s shorter poems, chatty and clever, with their immense vocabulary ... ”