Here comes Amy
Christopher Reid, 17 April 1986
Dramatic Verse: 1973-1985
by Tony Harrison.
Bloodaxe, 448 pp., £20, December 1985,0 906427 81 9 Show More
by Tony Harrison.
Bloodaxe, 448 pp., £20, December 1985,
Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis
by Wendy Cope.
Faber, 65 pp., £7.95, March 1986,0 571 13977 9 Show More
by Wendy Cope.
Faber, 65 pp., £7.95, March 1986,
“... of the impetuous, supercharged narrative manner of Virginia Woolf, or the cumulative music of Henry James. Where syntax and the overall shaping of a sentence are concerned, Clampitt can match both these supreme artists in the way she reflects the state of an enquiring or apprehending mind by means of the fits and starts of individual phrases and ... ”