7 DECEMBER 1962, Page 21

There's more to local life today I know, than what

I've found to say: But when you start recording it You've got to tone it down a bit.

Kingsley Amis's series of poems, The Evans Country, which appeared in the Spectator of May 4 and September 21, 1962, is to be published shortly by the Fantasy Press, 42 George Street, Oxford, at 2s. 6d.