16 MARCH 1985, page 31

Quite Contrary

Jimmy Reid The Letters of Hugh McDiarmid Edited by Alan Bold (Hamish Hamilton £20) C hristopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh ,-McDiarmid, will remain, for me at anY rate, an......

Off Sick

Regime of the house: the sun's morning Tour, his unsuspected finger on a dim corner. The house is not primed for my presence. I intrude On its private life. Forgive me, house,......