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Mark Ford, 25 June 2026

Only Sing 
by John Berryman, edited by Shane McCrae.
Faber, 166 pp., £12.99, January, 978 0 571 40013 3
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... have the 45 that John Haffenden published in Henry’s Fate (1977) and 152 further samples which Shane McCrae unearthed in Berryman’s dauntingly large archive at the University of Minnesota. Apart from the final poem, written two days before he died, these must all have been considered by Berryman as candidates for 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His ...

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