15 APRIL 1989, page 33

Funeral Games

The slow, black bell seems still to nod, its shadow Trembles in the gloom, a musky perfume Faint in the ear and mingling with the sweet Blue smoky exequies and far receding chop......

Fragments Of A National Epic

Peter Levi THE YEAR 1905 by Boris Pasternak translated by Richard Chappell Spenser Books, £4.95, pp.80 THE EYESIGHT OF WASPS by Osip Mandelstam translated by James Greene Angel......