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Meat To Piranhas

Patrick Skene Catling BURY MY HEART AT W. H. SMITH'S: A WRITING LIFE by Brian Aldiss Hodder, £13.95 pp. 221 T he jacket blurb of Last Orders (Cape, 1977), one of Brian Aldiss's......

Nature Is Merciless

Nature is merciless, Tears at the roots and murders out of habit, Yet all is well they say, you say, we say, And saying so makes for the less distress, Not in the broken tree or......