6 AUGUST 1977, page 30

New Poetry

Anthony Burgess I have often wondered, reading multiple notices of new volumes of poetry, how the reviewer set about doing them. I have now a chance to find out. Let me say at......

The Ghost

Peter Ackroyd Midlife Feasts Rudolf Nassauer (Jonathan Cape £4.50) There was a time when the novel was a'kind of shared joke between writer and reader; it was 'unreal', but......