Vol. 7 No. 4 · 7 March 1985
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Vol. 7 No. 4 · 7 March 1985
Peter Pulzer
The Oxford Vote
Letters
Ken Hirschkop, Sebastian Gardner, Margaret Lesser, Gillian Beer, Peter Todd Mitchell, John Thorne, Jean MacGibbon, Peter Gwyn, Harold Heifetz, Andor Klay, E.S. Turner, Charlie B., John Robson, Caroline Bingham, Andrew Graham-Yooll
Stefanie Poletyllo
Poem: ‘MP Surprise’
Alan Brinkley
Intervention in World Politics edited by Hedley Bull. Oxford, 198 pp., £12.50, August 1984, 9780198274674
Nikki Keddie
The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution by Shaul Bakhash. Tauris, 282 pp., £13.95, January 1985, 1 85043 003 9 The State and Revolution in Iran: 1962-1982 by Hossein Bashiriyeh. Croom Helm, 203 pp., £16.95, April 1983, 0 7099 3214 6
Keith Kyle
Waugh in Abyssinia by Evelyn Waugh. Methuen, 253 pp., £9.50, September 1984, 0 413 54830 9 Remote People by Evelyn Waugh. Penguin, 208 pp., £2.50, January 1985, 9780140095425 Haile Selassie’s War by Anthony Mockler. Oxford, 453 pp., £17.50, November 1984, 0 19 215867 8
Mark Bonham-Carter
Black and White Britain: The Third Survey by Colin Brown. PSI/Heinemann, 331 pp., £22.50, September 1984, 0 435 83124 0
Norma Kitson
Smoking
Peter Redgrove
Poem: ‘Model Railway Club, Staines’
Blair Worden
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance by David Norbrook. Routledge, 345 pp., £15.95, October 1984, 0 7100 9778 6 Restoration Theatre Production by Jocelyn Powell. Routledge, 226 pp., £19.95, November 1984, 0 7100 9321 7 Theatre and Crisis: 1632-1642 by Martin Butler. Cambridge, 340 pp., £25, August 1984, 0 521 24632 6 The Court Masque edited by David Lindley. Manchester, 196 pp., £22.50, August 1984, 0 7190 0961 8 Ben Jonson, Dramatist by Anne Barton. Cambridge, 370 pp., £30, July 1984, 0 521 25883 9
Sylvia Kantaris
Poem: ‘Floral Tribute’
Donald Davie
The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid edited by Alan Bold. Hamish Hamilton, 910 pp., £20, August 1984, 0 241 11220 6 Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972 edited by Paul O’Prey. Hutchinson, 323 pp., £14.95, November 1984, 9780091557508
Denis Donoghue
Montaigne’s Tower, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Grigson. Secker, 72 pp., £5.95, October 1984, 0 436 18806 6 Collected Poems: 1963-1980 by Geoffrey Grigson. Allison and Busby, 256 pp., £4.95, October 1984, 0 85031 557 3 The Faber Book of Reflective Verse edited by Geoffrey Grigson. Faber, 238 pp., £7.95, October 1984, 0 571 13299 5 Blessings, Kicks and Curses by Geoffrey Grigson. Allison and Busby, 279 pp., £4.95, October 1984, 0 85031 558 1 The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook by Geoffrey Grigson. Allison and Busby, 231 pp., £4.95, October 1984, 9780850315592 Before the Romantics: An Anthology of the Enlightenment by Geoffrey Grigson. Salamander, 349 pp., £5.95, September 1984, 0 907540 59 7
Edmund Leach
Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard. Harvill, 527 pp., £12.95, October 1984, 0 00 272515 0 With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson. Morrow, 242 pp., $15.95, July 1984, 0 688 03962 6
Rosalind Mitchison
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker. Women’s Press, 256 pp., £14.95, October 1984, 0 7043 2842 9 Living the Fishing by Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis. Routledge, 398 pp., £13.95, September 1983, 0 7100 9508 2 By the Sweat of their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines by Angela John. Routledge, 247 pp., £4.95, February 1984, 0 7102 0142 7
Michael Hofmann
The Weight of the World by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim. Secker, 243 pp., £9.95, September 1984, 0 436 19088 5
Hugh Barnes
The Final Passage by Caryl Phillips. Faber, 205 pp., £8.95, February 1985, 0 571 13437 8 Merle, and Other Stories by Paule Marshall. Virago, 210 pp., £9.95, February 1985, 0 86068 665 5 Heaven and Earth by Frederic Raphael. Cape, 310 pp., £8.95, February 1985, 0 224 02294 6 The Tenth Man by Graham Greene. Bodley Head, 157 pp., £6.95, March 1985, 9780370308319
Barbara Wootton
Diary: Changes
David Craig
Eric Linklater: A Critical Biography by Michael Parnell. Murray, 376 pp., £16, October 1984, 0 7195 4109 3
Douglas Johnson
The Killing Doll by Ruth Rendell. Hutchinson/Arrow, 237 pp., £7.95, March 1984, 0 09 155480 2 The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell. Hutchinson, 269 pp., £8.50, October 1984, 0 09 158680 1
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