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Inflammatory Power Of Poetry

Patrick Skene Catling BURNING PATIENCE by Antonio Skarmeta, translated by Katherine Silver Methuen, f9.95 A ntonio Skarmeta is a passionate Chilean novelist and dramatist who......

A Miserable Old Third-rate Bore

Duncan Fallowell WILLIAM WALTON: BEHIND THE FACADE by Susana Walton OUP, £12.95 T his is a very surprising book. William Walton was a minor composer of engaging, derivative......