We shall not be moved
John Bayley, 2 February 1984
Come aboard and sail away
by John Fuller.
Salamander, 48 pp., £6, October 1983,0 907540 37 6 Show More
by John Fuller.
Salamander, 48 pp., £6, October 1983,
‘The Memory of War’ and ‘Children in Exile’: Poems 1968-1983
by James Fenton.
Penguin, 110 pp., £1.95, October 1983,0 14 006812 0 Show More
by James Fenton.
Penguin, 110 pp., £1.95, October 1983,
Some Contemporary Poets of Britain and Ireland: An Anthology
edited by Michael Schmidt.
Carcanet, 184 pp., £9.95, November 1983,0 85635 469 4 Show More
edited by Michael Schmidt.
Carcanet, 184 pp., £9.95, November 1983,
Nights in the Iron Hotel
by Michael Hofmann.
Faber, 48 pp., £4, November 1983,0 571 13116 6 Show More
by Michael Hofmann.
Faber, 48 pp., £4, November 1983,
The Irish Lights
by Charles Johnston and Kyril Fitzlyon.
Bodley Head, 77 pp., £4.50, September 1983,0 370 30557 4 Show More
by Charles Johnston and Kyril Fitzlyon.
Bodley Head, 77 pp., £4.50, September 1983,
Fifteen to Infinity
by Ruth Fainlight.
Hutchinson, 62 pp., £5.95, September 1983,0 09 152471 7 Show More
by Ruth Fainlight.
Hutchinson, 62 pp., £5.95, September 1983,
Donald Davie and the Responsibilities of Literature
edited by George Dekker.
Carcanet, 153 pp., £9.95, November 1983,9780856354663 Show More
edited by George Dekker.
Carcanet, 153 pp., £9.95, November 1983,
“... There remains a most decided difference – indeed it grows wider every year – between what Philip Larkin calls ‘being a writer’, or ‘being a poet’, and managing to write something which will delight or amaze people without their having to respond to it in the context of poets and writers. Religion and other activities used to concentrate an audience by figuring in a non-literary context, and Blake or Emily Dickinson used religion, as they used the context of childhood responses, to appeal directly to an audience over the head, as it were, of literature ... ”
