24 JANUARY 1987, page 29

Keeping The Anglo-irish Alive

Derek Mahon TWILIGHT OF THE ASCENDANCY by Mark Bence - Jones Constable, L14.95 E veryone loves the Anglo-Irish, espe! ially the Irish, who take an indulgent. If slightly......

Words

What is it that we make as we obscure Each one our sight with words? What starts within the mind, what voice sings Uncertainly across our doom? The autumn mist falls: somewhere......