7 SEPTEMBER 1985, page 27

Wrong Number

Is that the vet? You said you'd fixed my cat And now she's dead. Wrong number. Is that the parson? Was it you who said That God is dead? Wrong number. Is that the hospital? My......

Foreseeing Death And Greatness

Peter Levi KEITH DOUGLAS: A PROSE MISCELLANY edited by Desmond Graham Carcanet f8.95 P oets often go on improving, like mecl - • lars which 'are never ripe until they be......

No Peace For The Wicket

John Nagenda NEXT MAN IN by Gerald Brodribb Pelham Books, £9.95 AT THE DOUBLE by Richard Hadlee and Tony Francis Stanley Paul, £7.95 CLIVE LLOYD: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by......