James Wood, 24 March 1994
Collected Poems 1953-1993 by John Updike.
Hamish Hamilton, 387 pp., £20, October 1993, 0 241 00167 6Show More Dante’s Drum-Kit by Douglas Dunn.
Faber, 145 pp., £6.99, November 1993, 0 571 17055 2Show More Old Men and Comets by D.J. Enright.
Oxford, 64 pp., £6.99, November 1994, 0 19 283176 3Show More Plato’s Ladder by Stephen Romer.
Oxford, 79 pp., £6.99, November 1992, 0 19 282986 6Show More The Country at My Shoulder by Moniza Alvi.
Oxford, 56 pp., £6.99, September 1993, 0 19 283125 9Show More British Subjects by Fred D’Aguiar.
Bloodaxe, 64 pp., £5.95, July 1993, 1 85224 248 5Show More Night Photograph by Lavinia Greenlaw.
Faber, 54 pp., £5.99, October 1993, 0 571 16894 9Show More Nil Nil by Don Paterson.
Faber, 53 pp., £5.99, April 1993, 0 571 16808 6Show More Out of Danger by James Fenton.
Penguin, 103 pp., £7.50, December 1993, 0 14 058719 5Show More “... some crease of detail or fold of radiance. It is in just such shining hiddenness that Lavinia Greenlaw excels. Her calm, springy, whispering monologues – ‘Galileo’s Wife’, or a soliloquy from one Dr William Pancoast, Philadelphia 1884 – are the best things in the book. She seems to have an instinct for unsettling detail: The wrong ...”
