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Topical Tip

Poems seem to need a sizeable white margin; space for the roots (and the reader) to enlarge in. David Cram......

In Sorrow Uttering Songs Of Joy

David Wright GEORGE BARKER: COLLECTED POEMS edited by Robert Fraser Faber, £27.50 A huge tome, full of poems so huge they sometimes topple over but manage to get back on their......

The Sadness Of A Wandering Jew

David Pryce-Jones THE SPELL by Hermann Broch Deutsch, f11.95 HERMANN BROCH by Paul Michael Liitzeler Quartet, £25 T he Spell is a Thirties novel, an allegory about Hitler. Its......