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“... shares some of the same scientific preoccupations. The Selected Poems has a useful introduction by Ruth Morse. Craig Raine’s libretto The Electrification of the Soviet Union might be seen as a further strand in his continuing argument with Tom Paulin over The Faber Book of Political Verse. On the one hand, Raine here shows himself to be a writer who can ...”

“... by authorial bitterness. Martin strives for fame as a writer and ardently courts a girl called Ruth Morse, an angelic virgin from a bourgeois family which looks down on him because of his working-class background. Fame comes, but with a postscript: his friend Russ Brissenden, who writes with an ease that makes Martin envious, shoots himself in the ...”

“... fled to London, and Ursula went to Moscow for six months of spy school: she learned Russian, Morse code and unarmed combat, built radios and blew things up. She had left Michael with her husband’s parents in Czechoslovakia (a precaution, in case he came back speaking Russian and blew her cover) and missed him terribly. His third birthday came and ...”