20 JANUARY 1956, page 18

Three Poems

DRAGONS , Wyvern, chimera, basilisk and cockatrice, Dragons still terrible but dead, The first inhabitants that built Their nests on mountains running salt And hung their inland......

Fogbound

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. (London Pavilion.) —TRIAL. (Empire.) — THE TERRIBLE ROAD. (National Film Theatre.) Tins is International Fog Week when the foreigner, often so engagingly......

Night Flight

As gentle as a gentle animal Or liquid lifting of a fountain's plume She was all through that day : I think that all Gentleness wanders right back to the womb, And is umbilical;......

Aubrey's Brief Lives

So, brief means violent as well as short : This one was disembowelled and that one died Unravelled in the agony of death : And some lascivious madcaps chased, and caught, The......