26 JANUARY 1991, page 34

Truth Is More Bitter Than Fiction

Anthony Blond IS THERE ANYBODY THERE? SAID THE TRAVELLER: MEMOIRS OF A PRIVATE NUISANCE by Simon Raven Muller, £14.99, pp. 198 T his book is neither more nor less......

The Use Of Nothingness

En-felloe thirty staves, and there's a wheel: But the worth of the wheel derives from the hole in its hub. Take clay: a lump of muck until it's moulded To the hollow worth of a......

Labouring In Vain

Peter Mullen THE CLOPTON HERCULES by Duncan Sprott Faber, £13.99, pp. 220 W ho now, under the brown fog of a winter dawn, sits in T.S. Eliot's chair at Fabers and publishes a......