Received Accents
Peter Robinson, 20 February 1986
Selected and New Poems: 1939-84
by J.C. Hall.
Secker, 87 pp., £3.95, September 1985,0 436 19052 4 Show More
by J.C. Hall.
Secker, 87 pp., £3.95, September 1985,
Burning the knife: New and Selected Poems
by Robin Magowan.
Scarecrow Press, 114 pp., £13.50, September 1985,0 8108 1777 2 Show More
by Robin Magowan.
Scarecrow Press, 114 pp., £13.50, September 1985,
Englishmen: A Poem
by Christopher Hope.
Heinemann, 41 pp., £4.95, September 1985,0 434 34661 6 Show More
by Christopher Hope.
Heinemann, 41 pp., £4.95, September 1985,
Selected Poems: 1954-1982
by John Fuller.
Secker, 175 pp., £8.95, September 1985,0 436 16754 9 Show More
by John Fuller.
Secker, 175 pp., £8.95, September 1985,
“... the series in which Burning the knife appears speaks with unconscious precision when he advocates Magowan’s music because it ‘tyrannises our minds, as another poet’s sound-poetry did – A.C. Swinburne’s’. Tyrannies, in whatever form, had better be resisted. His comparison with the English poet gives no idea of ... ”