Vol. 6 No. 6 · 5 April 1984
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Vol. 6 No. 6 · 5 April 1984
Paul Addison
Labour in Power 1945-1951 by Kenneth Morgan. Oxford, 546 pp., £15, March 1984, 0 19 215865 1
Letters
E.H. Gombrich, Jaynie Anderson, Helen Gardner, Reginald Whitaker, Edward Said, Ronald Hayman, Margot Heinemann
Tam Dalyell
The Sinking of the ‘Belgrano’ by Desmond Rice and Arthur Gavshon. Secker, 192 pp., £8.95, March 1984, 0 436 41332 9 Our Falklands War edited by Geoffrey Underwood. Maritime Books, 144 pp., £3.95, November 1983, 0 907771 08 4
Richard Hyman
Industry, Unions and Government: Twenty-One Years of NEDC by Keith Middlemas. Macmillan, 240 pp., £17.50, January 1984, 0 333 35121 5 Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946-73 by J.W. Durcan, W.E.J. McCarthy and G.P. Redman. Allen and Unwin, 448 pp., £20, November 1983, 0 04 331093 1 Picketing: Industrial Disputes, Tactics and the Law by Peggy Kahn, Norman Lewis, Rowland Livock and Paul Wiles. Routledge, 223 pp., £5.95, April 1983, 0 7100 9534 1
Brian Oxley
Two Poems
Richard Shannon
Albert, Prince Consort by Robert Rhodes James. Hamish Hamilton, 311 pp., £15, November 1983, 0 241 11000 9
Andrew Motion
Poem: ‘These Days’
J.I.M. Stewart
Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape 1849-1928 by Ann Thwaite. Secker, 567 pp., £15, April 1984, 0 436 52146 6
Claude Rawson
The World, the Text and the Critic by Edward Said. Faber, 327 pp., £15, February 1984, 0 571 13264 2 The Deconstructive Turn: Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy by Christopher Norris. Methuen, 201 pp., £4.95, December 1983, 0 416 36140 4 The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. VIII: The Present edited by Boris Ford. Penguin, 619 pp., £3.50, October 1983, 0 14 022271 5
Angus Calder
The Life of Arthur Ransome by Hugh Brogan. Cape, 456 pp., £10.95, January 1984, 0 224 02010 2 Bohemia in London by Arthur Ransome, introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis. Oxford, 284 pp., £3.50, January 1984, 0 19 281412 5
Frank Kermode
Home and Dry: Memoirs III by Roy Fuller. London Magazine Editions, 165 pp., £8.95, February 1984, 0 904388 47 6
C.H. Sisson
Whaur Extremes Meet: The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid 1920-1934 by Catherine Kerrigan. James Thin, 245 pp., £12.50, June 1983, 0 901824 69 0 Elemental Things: The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid by Harvey Oxenhorn. Edinburgh, 215 pp., £15, March 1984, 0 85224 475 4 Aesthetics in Scotland by Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold. Mainstream, 100 pp., £6.95, February 1984, 0 906391 60 1 Annals of the Five Senses by Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold. Polygon, 161 pp., £6.50, July 1983, 0 904919 74 9 Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal by Alan Bold. Routledge, 251 pp., £9.95, August 1983, 0 7100 9493 0 Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve) by Kenneth Buthlay. Scottish Academic Press, 143 pp., £3.25, September 1982, 0 7073 0307 9 The Thistle Rises: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Hugh MacDiarmid edited by Alan Bold. Hamish Hamilton, 463 pp., £12.95, February 1984, 0 241 11171 4 A Scottish Poetry Book by Alan Bold, Bob Dewar, Iain McIntosh and Rodger McPhail. Oxford, 128 pp., £4.95, July 1983, 0 19 916029 5 Edinburgh and the Borders in Verse by Allan Massie. Secker, 97 pp., £5.95, August 1983, 0 436 27348 9
Clive James
Poem: ‘Funnelweb’
D.A.N. Jones
Old Catholics and Anglicans: 1931-1981 edited by Gordon Huelin. Oxford, 177 pp., £12.50, April 1983, 0 19 920129 3 Anglican Essays by C.H. Sisson. Carcanet, 141 pp., £6.95, April 1983, 0 85635 456 2 The Song of Roland by C.H. Sisson. Carcanet, 135 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 9780856354212 The Regrets by Joachim du Bellay, translated by C.H. Sisson. Carcanet, 147 pp., £4.50, January 1984, 0 85635 471 6
Sissela Bok
Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. Vol. I: Autobiography and Literary Essays edited by John Robson and Jack Stillinger. Toronto, 766 pp., £35, March 1982, 0 7100 0718 3
David Story
Diary: On Being a Twin
Barbara Wootton
McNee’s Law: The Memoirs of Sir David McNee by David McNee. Collins, 256 pp., £9.95, November 1983, 0 00 217007 8 Police and People in London. Vol. I: A Survey of Londoners by David Smith. Policy Studies Institute, 386 pp., £7.40, November 1983, 0 85374 223 5 Police and People in London. Vol. II: A Group of Young Black People by Stephen Small. Policy Studies Institute, 192 pp., £4.60, November 1983, 0 85374 224 3 Police and People in London. Vol. III: A Survey of Police Officers by David Smith. Policy Studies Institute, 216 pp., £6.20, November 1983, 0 85374 225 1 Police and People in London. Vol. IV: The Police in Action by David Smith and Jeremy Gray. Policy Studies Institute, 368 pp., £7.40, November 1983, 9780853742265
Sylvia Clayton
Something Out There by Nadine Gordimer. Cape, 203 pp., £8.50, March 1984, 0 224 02189 3 My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket. Robin Clark, 247 pp., £8.95, March 1984, 0 86072 071 3 West of Sunset by Dirk Bogarde. Allen Lane, 248 pp., £8.95, March 1984, 9780713916324
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