5 SEPTEMBER 1958, page 24

To Whom It May Concern: Poems 1952-57. By

Alan Ross. (Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) MANY new poems one sees now read like uneasy statements made in a void; they lack roots or relationships and any assurance they have often......

Forms Of Assurance

A Sense of the World: Poems. By Elizabeth Jennings. (Andre Deutsch, 10s. 6d.) THIS is Elizabeth Jennings's third I and it is her best. Rhythmical mo occasionally inpenetrable......

Selected Poems, 1940-57. By Leonard Clark. (hutchinson,...

combining a traditional style with a modern freedom, Leonard Clark contrives in his poems to make the best of two worlds. If he uses old forms, he also breaks out into loose......