Out of the blue
Mark Ford, 10 December 1987
Partingtime Hall
by James Fenton and John Fuller.
Salamander, 69 pp., £7.50, April 1987,0 948681 05 5 Show More
by James Fenton and John Fuller.
Salamander, 69 pp., £7.50, April 1987,
Bright River Yonder
by John Hartley Williams.
Bloodaxe, 87 pp., £4.95, April 1987,1 85224 028 8 Show More
by John Hartley Williams.
Bloodaxe, 87 pp., £4.95, April 1987,
“... So characteristic of Paul Muldoon’s poetry as to be almost a hallmark is the moment, unnerving and exciting in about equal measures, when his speaker is suddenly revealed to himself as someone else. The whole world expands and changes in ‘Cass and Me’ when, as a boy, he climbs on the older Cass’s shoulders, and they lean out across the yard As a giant would across the world ... ”