14 APRIL 1990, page 33

Three Women And A Dragon

Anita Brookner THREE TIMES TABLE by Sara Maitland Chatto & Windus, £12.95, pp.216 T here is irresistible appeal in the three- generations-of-women story. The reasons for its......

My Hunter Of Blue Dragonflies, How Far Today Through The

endless wither of the other world Has he wandered away? Kaga no Chiyo (1703-1775) Translated from the Japanese by Graeme Wilson......

His Goddess, Or Off Her Rocker

Mark Archer ROBERT GRAVES: THE YEARS WITH LAURA 1926-40 by Richard Perceval Graves Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25, pp.380 A s soon as Laura Riding had thrown herself from the......

Spring Dawn

Dawn breaks; or is it bird-calls Illuminating night? Look, from the cries of pheasants Grow layerings of light Till, one by one, the mountain rice-flats Listen to be white.......