4 OCTOBER 1963, page 33

Illusion And Reality

An Elderly Retired Man. By Kathleen Nott. (Faber, 21s.) The South begins with the death of the narra- tor's father, and proceeds to a retrospect of the narrator's life up to......

Belief In Winter

Today I believe in winter, In perpetual cold, and the, certainty of death; In premonitions, beading the wires like birds Parcelled in ice, choked by their frozen breath. I think......