February In Glos.
Heard from the near-dark this uncold morning, A single trill — `Godthingsarelookingup!' Just that, and then silence, as though the bird hunched In fluffed feathers again,......
Reducing Life To Jokes
Anita Brookner THE SELKIRK STRIP by Ferdinand Mount Hamish Hamilton, £9.95 T he Selkirk Strip is a piece of unman- ageable territory 'between the jungle and the mountains'.......
Kind Heart, Kultur And Coronets
Alastair Forbes THE BONUS OF LAUGHTER by Alan Pryce-Jones Hamish Hamilton, f12.95 I n a single week of my last stay in New York I chanced twice to have the pleasure of finding......
Grandma In Winter
In her black shawl she moves over the field of snow With a slow proud strut, like a burgher Or a fat crow. The raw sun has oozed on to the lint of cloud, A pretty smear of pain.......
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