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The Inventor Of Night Starvation

William Scammell NORMAN CAMERON: COLLECTED POEMS edited by Warren Hope and Jonathan Barker Anvil Press, £14.95, pp. 160 A n almost impenetrable discretion surrounds both life......

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`You'll have to clean my jumper' you say our toddler just pronounced 'as dolefully as Eeyore'. You dab the messed garment with water, then loop your styled bob behind each ear......

Belated Brownie Points

Francis King BOY D uring my three-year Presidency of the international writers' organisation PEN, I encountered a strange phe- nomenon whenever a writer was impris- oned or a......