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Hilary Corke POEMS AND VERSIONS by David Wright Carcanet, f6.95, pp. 79. D on't being this book in the middle. If you do you may perhaps be faced on the left page with Letter to......

How Vainly Men

Here in the garden, hiding from the future, Between the cranesbill and the clematis, The peonies shedding petals everyday, The sun my only guest, the pyrocanthus Putting forth......

In The Library With A Pen

John Spurling THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Gilbert Adair Heinemann, £13.99, pp. 135 T he narrator of Gilbert Adair's novel calls it 'this mendacious and mischievous and......