Neil Corcoran confronts the new recklessness
Neil Corcoran, 28 September 1989
Manila Envelope
by James Fenton.
28 Kayumanggi St, West Triangle Homes, Quezon City, Phillipines, 48 pp., £12, May 1989,971 8647 01 5 Show More
by James Fenton.
28 Kayumanggi St, West Triangle Homes, Quezon City, Phillipines, 48 pp., £12, May 1989,
The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness
by Selima Hill.
Chatto, 47 pp., £5.95, May 1989,0 7011 3455 0 Show More
by Selima Hill.
Chatto, 47 pp., £5.95, May 1989,
“... an explosive device, particularly if the cover of the book it ostensibly contains has a savage Nicholas Garland illustration of a wild horseman wielding a bloody scimitar, surrounded by the decapitated victims of his havoc. If the poems of Manila Envelope are explosive, the manifesto makes its plea for them obliquely. Pawky, wry, epigrammatic ... ”