Miss Nancy Cunard is following the modern mode of pub-
lishing a small hand of poems at a high price. Her Poems (Two) 1925 (Aquila Press, 10s. Od.) are beautifully. .produced in handset type. Their manner is in the latest Paris Majorca school, of the St. Perse-Eliot-Graves tradition in Which the logic of ideas is flouted and replaced by the technique of the psycho-analyst's consulting room. A mood is conditioned, and to illustrate it the poet sinks into quiescence, content with a series of sympathetic scenes or images. Miss Cunard is as clever as any of her group in this 'work, and her two poems leave the reader with a sense of indefinable beauty, as when listening to a breeze sighing from telegraph wires and answering itself in the branches of larch trees. Here is a typical image :- " The moon collects on puddle-water-
Lilac and prune-flush, suffusions then shadows of nightfall, Wing-rustle in quickset . . .. and suddenly that hunting-music, Delaying chords of horns, suspending chords After silence." * * * *
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