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Wielding His Clubs

P. N. Furbank THE USE OF MEMORY by Tom Burns Sheed & Ward, £19.95, pp. 202 I t is the practice now for obituaries to come signed, and to that degree to be a little more......

There Is A Tide In The Affairs Of Men And

he missed it Anne Applebaum HOPE DIES LAST by Alexander Dubcek liarperCollins, .£20, pp. 354 here is no such thing, they used to say in Eastern Europe, as a communist who is......

The Poet

Anxious, unsociable, uninteresting (Despite what others tell me), I confess Of all I've known there's only the one thing Vindicates me, and that is to express Something I'd......