Cut-Ups
Robert Crawford, 7 December 1989
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman
by Grace Nichols.
Virago, 58 pp., £4.99, July 1989,1 85381 076 2 Show More
by Grace Nichols.
Virago, 58 pp., £4.99, July 1989,
Studying Grosz on the Bus
by John Lucas.
Peterloo, 64 pp., £4.95, August 1989,1 871471 02 8 Show More
by John Lucas.
Peterloo, 64 pp., £4.95, August 1989,
“... pep and strangeness. There are plenty of local satisfactions in the collections by John Lucas and Joan Downar. Lucas gives us the downtrodden Greek who goes ‘home to his parents again/ to dream the pebble under his apt tongue’, but he also gives us words such as ‘pillowwards’ and offers rather a lot of academic references (‘Laforgue ... ”
