2 MARCH 1991, page 27

Confidence Not Always Well Placed

C.H. Sisson DOG FOX FIELD by Les Murray Carcanet, f6.95, pp. 103 P oetry is a tiresome word. Housman was convinced that most readers, 'when they think they are admiring poetry .......

Nor Uncle Me No Uncle

Francis King BEFORE THE RAINY SEASON by Gert Hofman Secker & Warburg, £14.99, pp. 346 T he year is 1968. Two young Germans, a man "and his fiancée, make the arduous journey out......