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‘Intense verbal minimalism’ is the hallmark of the Nobel la
‘Dear Mr Grieg: I am writing to you in connection with a plan that I propose to implement, and in which I wish to invite your participation.’ The tone is impeccably formal and business-like, but the l
Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...
Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory
ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,
László Krasznahorkai, Nobel laureate in literature
Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time