25 NOVEMBER 1989, page 48

An Old Man In A Dry Month

Stephen Spender THE MONKEY GRAMMARIAN by Octavio Paz Peter Owen, £14.95, pp.162 T he dazzling verbal tapestry of this performance — part prose, part poem — is so miraculously......

Kissed The Girl And Made Her Cry

Duncan Fallowell WEEP NO MORE by Barbara Skelton Hamish Hamilton, £14.95, pp.166 T his is the second volume of Barbara Skelton's autobiography.It opens with a flourish. A sharp......