Ever so comfy
James Wood, 24 March 1994
Collected Poems 1953-1993
by John Updike.
Hamish Hamilton, 387 pp., £20, October 1993,0 241 00167 6 Show More
by John Updike.
Hamish Hamilton, 387 pp., £20, October 1993,
The Country at My Shoulder
by Moniza Alvi.
Oxford, 56 pp., £6.99, September 1993,0 19 283125 9 Show More
by Moniza Alvi.
Oxford, 56 pp., £6.99, September 1993,
“... 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 ... ”
