21 MARCH 1987, page 31

Folk Poet Poem

The old folk-poet bundled Against the heavy, hard Hand of the ill wind That blew no good to her yard. Birds of a feather flocked Beyond her in the hedge. The blade of morning......

Eccentric And Inconvenient

Victoria Glendinning E. SYLVIA PANKHURST: PORTRAIT OF A RADICAL by Patricia W. Romero Yale, £17.50 A t the name of Pankhurst every knee shall bow. Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and her......

Books

The phantom mole Richard Deacon MOLEHUNT by Nigel West Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f10.95 M alcolm Muggeridge once amusingly described Andrew Boyle as 'the keeper of the Queen's......