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Solitary Reaping

Christopher Hawtree David Peterley: Peterley Harvest Edited by Michael Holroyd (Secker & Warburg £8.95) M ystery has obscured the interest of this book. First published in a......

,apple Poem

Take the apple from the bowl or bough Or kitchen table where in gloom it glows And you will sense, mysteriously, how Its fragrance and substantial presence throws A shadow shape......

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In praise of insanity David Sexton Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist 1927-1957 R. D. Laing (Macmillan £9.95) eing a guru may be taxing, but having 1.1 been......