16 MARCH 1985, page 30

Quite Contrary

Jimmy Reid The Letters of Hugh McDiarmid Edited by Alan Bold (Hamish Hamilton £20) C hristopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh ,-McDiarmid, will remain, for me at anY rate, an......

A Stage-manager

P. J. Kavanagh The Poetical Works of Andrew Young Edited by Edward Lowbury and Alison Young (Secker £12.95) T he case of Andrew Young is an in- teresting one. Born in 1885, he......

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