Michael Hofmann on the steady state of Patricia Beer
Michael Hofmann, 18 September 1980
Nostalgia for the Present
by Andrei Voznesensky.
Oxford, 150 pp., £3.50, April 1980,0 19 211900 1 Show More
by Andrei Voznesensky.
Oxford, 150 pp., £3.50, April 1980,
Reflections on the Nile
by Ronald Bottrall.
London Magazine Editions, 56 pp., £3.50, May 1980,0 904388 33 6 Show More
by Ronald Bottrall.
London Magazine Editions, 56 pp., £3.50, May 1980,
“... especially. Reflections on the Nile and Summer Palaces are the latest books by Ronald Bottrall and Peter Scupham. Their titles and covers provide a fair clue to the stances of the respective poets. The cover of Bottrall’s book is a strip of limo-green over dirty yellow – the sky over Egypt, you think, the muddy unreflecting Nile. ... ”