Hugging the cats
John Bayley, 14 June 1990
Selected Poems 1940 – 1989
by Allen Curnow.
Viking, 209 pp., £15.99, May 1990,0 670 83007 0 Show More
by Allen Curnow.
Viking, 209 pp., £15.99, May 1990,
Collected Poems and Selected Translations
by Norman Cameron, edited by Warren Hope and Jonathan Barker.
Anvil, 160 pp., £14.95, May 1990,0 85646 202 0 Show More
by Norman Cameron, edited by Warren Hope and Jonathan Barker.
Anvil, 160 pp., £14.95, May 1990,
“... writing, the thing that can be learnt on the campus, ‘the consequences’, as Philip Larkin put it, ‘of a cunning merger between poet, literary critic, and academic critic (three classes now notoriously indistinguishable)’. Gay Clifford was an academic, and by all accounts a brilliant and effective one, a lecturer in English at ... ”