5 MAY 1984, page 27

The Self And Its Abuse

Lewis Jones 1982 Janine Alasdair Gray (Cape £8.95) Unlikely Stories, Mostly Alasdair Gray (Penguin £4.95) A lasdair Gray's first novel, Lanark, I orando m casined comparison......

Half Forgotten Voices

Peter Levi Poems 1938-1983 Sheila Wingfield (Enitharmon Press £8.85, £5.25) Collected Poems 1912-1944 H. D. (Carcanet Press £16.95) I t is interesting to see suddenly the col-......

Among This Week's Contributors

Robert Conquest's books on the Soviet Union include The Great Terror, The Nation Killers and Lenin. Peter Levi is standing for election as Professor of Poetry at Oxford.......