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Michael Hofmann, 7 July 1994
Walking Possession: Essays and Reviews 1968-1993
by Ian Hamilton.
Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £20, May 1994,0 7475 1712 6 Show More
by Ian Hamilton.
Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £20, May 1994,
“... I said I’d lost it, paid the ten pound penalty, and thought I’d got away with murder: no doubt George Washington would have behaved differently. Now I’m the proud owner of four or five copies (whenever I come across one, I buy it), and moreover Faber had the grace to publish an enlarged version in 1988, Fifty Poems, so the library will be back in ... ”