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Still Waters Running Deep

Hilary Corke AN ENCHANTMENT by P. J. Kavanagh Carcanet, f6.95, pp. 47 P J. Kavanagh opens this small packed collection of subtle, slippery poems with advice put into the mouth......

Glimpses Of Failure

Mark Illis THREE EVENINGS by James Lasdun Secker, f13.99, pp.175 T he title story in James Lasdun's second collection of short stories describes three phases of an uneasy......