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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 .......

A Princess Bobbing On The Tide Of History

Philip Glazebrook ASYA by Michael Ignatieff Chatto & Windus, £13.99, pp. 320 T his enjoyable novel tells the life story of a Russian princess born in 1900 into whose private......