28 MAY 1994, page 36

Brightest And Best

William Scammell POETRY REVIEW: NEW GENERATION POETS edited by Peter Forbes Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2, tel, 071 240 4810, £4,95, pp. 127 S hould poetry be......

The Creation Of An Englishman

Frances Partridge PENCIL ME IN: A MEMOIR OF STANLEY OLSON by Phyllis Hatfield Deutsch, £14.99, pp, 225 L A self-made man' is an epithet with various meanings, one of which fits......