Venisti tandem
Denis Donoghue, 7 February 1985
Dangerous play: Poems 1974-1984
by Andrew Motion.
Salamander, 110 pp., £8.95, October 1984,0 907540 56 2 Show More
by Andrew Motion.
Salamander, 110 pp., £8.95, October 1984,
An Umbrella from Piccadilly
by Jaroslav Seifert and Ewald Osers.
London Magazine Editions, 80 pp., £5, November 1984,0 904388 75 1 Show More
by Jaroslav Seifert and Ewald Osers.
London Magazine Editions, 80 pp., £5, November 1984,
“... a disability, or the lover can work up only enough erotic energy to ensure that his fancies pass. Jaroslav Seifert is, I gather, the best of contemporary Czech poets. Ewald Osers provides a brief account of him and of his political history. Osers’s translations read well, though I suspect a misprint on page 41 in ‘The Song of the Whales’. On the ... ”
