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Reinventing An Old Language

David Wright THE FABER BOOK OF TWENTIETH CENTURY SCOTTISH POETRY edited by Douglas Dunn Faber, E17.50, pp. 424 h is is an eye-opener, or better, an ear- opener of an anthology.......

Zero

the perfect figure where Mystery and Beauty intersect — and from that point on the heavens opened up like a casket of Mesopotamian rubies and all his calculations proved......