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Himself The Poet And The Theme

David Wright SWEETAPPLE EARTH by John Heath-Stubbs Carcanet, £Z 95, pp. 70 HINDSIGHTS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by John Heath-Stubbs Hodder, £25, pp. 308 J ohn Heath-Stubbs celebrates......

So Much They Talked, So Very Little Said

Byron Rogers THE WINE DARK SEA by Patrick O'Brian HarperCollins, £1 4.99, pp. 256 h is has to be the most extraordinary work I have read by a contemporary. It is the 16th in a......