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Homer In Leather

Stephen Spender COLLECTED POEMS by Thom Gunn Faber, £20, pp. 512 T his is the poet's life which takes the reader from his youth in London to the years of his maturity, spent......

Time Must Have A Stop

Tim Parks THE FERMATA by Nicholson Baker Chatto, £14.99, pp. 305 A rnold Strine pushes his glasses up on the bridge of his nose and time stops, the world around him stops. But......