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“... references to Dylan Thomas and Yeats, the decadence of the imagery is bleeding from Godard to Dirk Bogarde camping it up in Losey’s Modesty Blaise. Time, no doubt, to move on to television. Godard’s Bande à part is name-checked in the poem ‘Variations’ from Nicht War, Rosie? (1979), and that’s it: change of ...”

“... relate ‘the experiences of the many through that of the individual’. Well, such individuals as Dirk Bogarde and Quintin Hogg, Spike Milligan and Enoch Powell can be found projecting intelligence and compassion in these pages, along with such recognised poets of high accomplishment as Gavin Ewart and Henry Reed, Norman Cameron and Robert Garioch, Roy ...”

“... or lumpencommentariat). Smoker is an unbelievably nasty piece of work. Like Dirk Smoker – who ghosted the autobiography of Kim Twemlow, Keith Talent’s all-time darting hero – he’s a miserable hack. And he works for Talent’s paper of choice, the Morning Lark: a sub-Sport rag where ‘no global cataclysm had yet had the power to ...”