Every three years
Blake Morrison, 3 March 1988
A Various Art
edited by Andrew Crozier and Tim Longville.
Carcanet, 377 pp., £12.95, December 1987,0 85635 698 0 Show More
edited by Andrew Crozier and Tim Longville.
Carcanet, 377 pp., £12.95, December 1987,
Between Leaps: Poems 1972-1985
by Brad Leithauser.
Oxford, 81 pp., £5.95, September 1987,0 19 282089 3 Show More
by Brad Leithauser.
Oxford, 81 pp., £5.95, September 1987,
“... lines. The comparative expansiveness of his later poems, one of which goes so far as to turn the page, does little to moderate the impression of a costive and sometimes caustic talent, a minimalist who writes only the poems that he comes on (or which come to him) by happy accident, which means rarely. The lack of a pragmatic, Johnsonian go-get-’em approach ... ”