Puck’s Dream
Mark Ford, 14 June 1990
Life by Other Means: Essays on D.J. Enright
edited by Jacqueline Simms.
Oxford, 208 pp., £25, March 1990,0 19 212989 9 Show More
edited by Jacqueline Simms.
Oxford, 208 pp., £25, March 1990,
Vanishing Lung Syndrome
by Miroslav Holub, translated by David Young and Dana Habova.
Faber, 68 pp., £10.99, April 1990,0 571 14378 4 Show More
by Miroslav Holub, translated by David Young and Dana Habova.
Faber, 68 pp., £10.99, April 1990,
The Dimension of the Present Moment, and Other Essays
by Miroslav Holub, edited by David Young.
Faber, 146 pp., £4.99, April 1990,0 571 14338 5 Show More
by Miroslav Holub, edited by David Young.
Faber, 146 pp., £4.99, April 1990,
Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations
by Miroslav Holub, translated by Ewald Osers and George Theiner.
Bloodaxe, 272 pp., £16, April 1990,1 85224 121 7 Show More
by Miroslav Holub, translated by Ewald Osers and George Theiner.
Bloodaxe, 272 pp., £16, April 1990,
My Country: Collected Poems
by Alistair Elliot.
Carcanet, 175 pp., £18.95, November 1989,0 85635 846 0 Show More
by Alistair Elliot.
Carcanet, 175 pp., £18.95, November 1989,
1953: A Version of Racine’s ‘Andromaque’
by Craig Raine.
Faber, 89 pp., £4.99, March 1990,0 571 14312 1 Show More
by Craig Raine.
Faber, 89 pp., £4.99, March 1990,
Andromache
by Jean Racine, translated by Douglas Dunn.
Faber, 81 pp., £4.99, March 1990,0 571 14249 4 Show More
by Jean Racine, translated by Douglas Dunn.
Faber, 81 pp., £4.99, March 1990,
“... Between the raised talon of the right hand rests an object – At rest, like a pale island in a savage sea – a child’s head, Immobile, authentic, torn and bloody – The point of repose in the picture, the point of movement in us. Here, for once, Davie feels, Enright accepts that great art is ‘amoral, unleashing energies which do not stop short ... ”