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“... Douglas and Edith Sitwell. The University of Southern Illinois holds the Aldington archive and Fred Crawford’s Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia is an archive-driven crawl over a hitherto neglected patch of literary history. It is heavy with quotation from all the relevant acrimonious correspondence. The book is mainly concerned with the way ...”

“... something more than a stepping-stone between us and several dozen Collected Poems. Armitage and Crawford entitle their introduction ‘The Democratic Voice’, binding the last fifty years of poetry into its wider social and cultural contexts – education acts, decolonisation, immigration – while Sean O’Brien, author of The Deregulated Muse, a fine ...”

“... position of McIlvanney or the Dunn of Barbarians: certainly some of the writers anthologised by Fred D’Aguiar as representatives of ‘Black British Poetry’ make interesting links with other analogous predicaments. D’Aguiar himself takes as the epigraph to his introduction Stephen Dedalus’s description of Irish art from Ulysses, ‘The cracked ...”

“... she was expelled after a bundle of love letters was found in her desk. It turned out that the ‘Fred’ who had signed them was merely a name she had given herself. (In later life she must have had innumerable love letters from one Fred or another: it would be interesting to know what, if anything, she said in ...”

“... it cannot escape the racial connotation. Homie is also informed by the work of the poet Fred Moten and the theorist Stefano Harney, particularly their notion of the ‘undercommons’, a way of existing in institutional life – the academy, the publishing world, journalism – without being mediated by it. It is a ‘dislocation’, Harney ...”

“... and thereby adds momentarily to her sexual status, the breakdown of the marriage between popular Fred and cute Betty, the extremely convincing collapse into madness of Louise, and the effect that this has on her reluctant friend Morrison, a small nightmare about a woman poet who is about to give a reading in a distant town and is struck down in a strange ...”

“... that she was going to call the press. Then she rang her husband, but got through to his deputy, Fred LaRue, one of the men who handled the famous slush fund that had paid for the Watergate burglary a few weeks earlier. This Martha tale appears in the published White House diary of Nixon’s chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman. LaRue rang the agent stationed with ...”

“... and George W. Bush the energy-industry scion and owner of a merely recreational ranch in Crawford, Texas, have had very little in common with their rural and exurban constituents, and their gestures at farmyard, strip-mall or cowboy-boot cred have tended to come across as phoney and embarrassing. Photographed inside J.C. Penney’s or Costco or ...”