4 APRIL 1987, page 35

Second In Poetry, Third In English

David Sexton THE POET AUDEN: A PERSONAL MEMOIR by A. L. Rowse Methuen, £9.95 T he Thirties writers have been written about far too much, thinks Dr Rowse. O nly one of the......

Two Poems

I look for the round words the words on ball-and-socket joints the swivelling words: gun emplacements blowing balloons and raspberries anywhichway in the wind my words are proud......