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Poetry Books

All irony and no fire Michael Horovitz Some Contemporary Poets of Britain and Ireland Edited by Michael Schmidt (Carcanet Press £9.95, £4.50) M ichael Schmidt's preface begins......

Large-browed

P. J Kavanagh Selected Poems George Meredith (Carcanet £4.95) G eorge Meredith is, I suppose, an unfashionable novelist, and I would strongly recommend The Egoist to anyone who......