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The Face Of Someone Who Could Die

Alan Brownjohn A TIME FOR FIRES by Vernon Scannell Robson Books, £10.95, pp.66 h e first poem in Vernon Scannell's col- lection concerns an escapologist fighting his way out of......

Sending The Mind Reeling

Caroline Moore PROOFS AND THREE PARABLES by George Steiner Faber, £5.99, pp. 114 T his slim paperback is George Steiner's first work of fiction for ten years. It contains, in......