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Claire Harman: George Barker, 3 October 2002
The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker
by Robert Fraser.
Cape, 573 pp., £25, February 2002,0 224 06242 5 Show More
by Robert Fraser.
Cape, 573 pp., £25, February 2002,
“... the book as a fantasy of incestuous marriage. Alanna is pregnant by a husband who has left her; Edward is a poet immobilised after an accident. As her pregnancy progresses, Alanna’s lyricism becomes feverish; ‘Edward, Rock in an ocean of delirium, succour me! Secure me with your stark arms, male hard arms, which bend ... ”