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Not Quite Concentrating Into Passion

William Scammell THE MAN WITH NIGHT SWEATS by Thom Gunn Faber, £11.99,5.99, pp.90 T om Gunn's early poetry was an engaging mix of up-to-the-minute subject matter and formal......

Attending To Imperial Balls

David Wright THE EMPEROR'S LAST ISLAND by Julia Blackburn Secker, .06.99, pp. 244 B arring Tristan da Cunha, the island of St Helena is perhaps the most remote, least visited,......