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My Coffee-table Is Full Of Plates

David Ekserdjian CCW hat is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or con- versations?" ' The art book, with its inevit- able double-act of plates and text, would......

Sibard's Well

My house, named for the Saxon spring, Stands by the sour farmyard, the long- Dry lip that once was Sibard's Well Buried beneath a winding-stone To stop the cattle falling in;......

Books

Stemming the tide ANTI-RACISM: AN ASSAULT ON EDUCATION AND VALUE edited by Frank Palmer Sherwood Press, f9.95 I am often oppressed by the suspicion that no one responsible for......