Roy Fuller
I.m. W.H. Chaloner ob. 25.v.1987 Professor Chaloner linked the history Of fish and chips to the cotton industry, My native town of Oldham especially. — This in the legendary......
Man On A Tightrope
Paul Taylor A LIFE by Elia Kazan Deutsch, £17.95, pp.848 M umps in adolescence deprived Elia Kazan of one of his testicles, but balls, oddly enough, are the last thing you could......
After The Horses Have Bolted
Anne Chisholm RIVALS by Jilly Cooper Bantam, £11.95, pp. 542 T he trouble with Jilly Cooper's new novel Rivals, a sequel to her immensely successful romantic saga Riders, is......
The Song Of Solomon
I read of `sharon fruit', and find it on The supermarket shelves at umpteen p Per rather dubious tomato shape. The 'rose of Sharon' — what is that? I have To turn the pages of......
At Night
At night, as regularly as the foxes, The ants emerge. In our suburban boxes We're not safe from this other scavenger, Call into play the chemicals we'd bar Against the larger,......
May Day
The blackbirds sound alarm. I penetrate The evening garden, scare off thieving magpies. Then hear from deep indoors not apposite Rossini but unearthly notes of Bach. O cello......
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