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Not For Mr Poop

Kate Kavanagh JOHN COWPER POWYS by Herbert Williams Seren, £14.95, pp. 172 T his old man is sly and wised He knows the truth, he tells no lies . . . Stevie Smith's 'Homage to......

Assume A Virtue, If You Have It Not

Andrew Brown I n ten years' writing about religion, I made it a rule not to read Don Cupitt. I would meet his followers from time to time: pleasant, mild-mannered men, usual- ly......