Mummers And Mimers
DURING the last decade a great deal of un- necessary attention has been paid in English- speaking literary circles on both sides of the Atlantic to poseurs who will be lucky if......
Scholar's Song
Assurance, purpose and the futile turns of verse deride us with our lively powers. Who is a poet that can read the loose analogies of passion? Out of use the definitions......
Hors D'ceuvre
WHO is Etiemble? Some will recognise the name as that of an arabist who is also a sinologue, as a literary journalist of charm who in the world of ideas is ever starting hares.......
The Insomniac
It takes four hours to get me off to sleep Or seven whiskies. Otherwise I watch The light fade off the ceiling, curse and writhe In my own putrefaction. If 1 drink, At four......
Pig-bodied Mole, I Pull You Out Stiffened With Rage From
tail to snout With rage and terror in the light Wild to escape and wild to bite. Your tail erect lends me the grip By which like meat I swing you up. Out of this lawn I'll have......
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