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“... enmity of both sides – the Whites for deserting them, and the Reds for opposing them’.Anna Reid, author of the excellent Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine (1997) as well as two books on Russia, has now returned to the borderland in the context of the Allied, particularly British, military intervention in the aftermath of ...”

“... visitors, but the programme wasn’t to everyone’s taste. Two local ladies approached us after Anna Reid was interviewed about her history of Ukraine. ‘I wish my husband would come and see this,’ one of them said. ‘He’s a farmer and really right-wing. It opens you up, something like this. Makes you see a bigger world.’ ‘But they need to ...”

“... is it Alcaics?) – and one of the few to describe our current impoverishments. Christopher Reid’s interrogation of language expresses itself in an interest in translationese. Katerina Brac seems to have arisen from a long immersion in Oxford and Penguin books of verse in translation. Its language is a kind of anti-dialect – English, but a ...”

“... and address audiences in the towns of Noyon and Laval, and ‘consecrating’ Léon/Noel, Eve, Anna, Otto, Bob and Ava as ‘given names of the year’. It was in keeping with the principles of the Oulipo that these should have remained as theoretical events, conceived of without any taking of steps for their realisation, for this ever-amiable ...”

“... have one without the other. Those who have both will find that, among contemporaries, Christopher Reid and Michael Hofmann are classified as love poets but Craig Raine and Tony Harrison as blue versifiers. Only a few poets make both, including Seamus Heaney, who has two poems unworthy of him in the Whitworth (one about unfreezing a vaginal pump, one about a ...”

“... be pardoned, though in a speech later described as ‘deeply felt’ the Armed Forces Minister, Dr Reid, says that their names can now be inscribed on war memorials and that they will be pardoned in our hearts etc. The official reason they cannot be pardoned is that there is now (as there no doubt was then) little evidence as to who were genuinely ...”