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Classical Wit

Gavin Ewart New and Selected Poems James Michie (Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press £3.95) J ames Michie, the famed translator of Catullus, Martial and Horace, has some of the......

Gardens, Plants And Butterflies

John Joiliffe ven without a heatwave, but this year E more than ever, August is the time W . hen most gardens, however well tended or illegally watered, begin to look jaded and......