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Is poetry just for “clever dicks and posers”? That was how it was
The wisdom of Bertie Wooster
Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the o
The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel
Pick of the week’s correspondence
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I’ve just returned from three magical days in the Lake District. Craggy mountains, mist over the fells, and the gentle hum of a Herdwick sheep or two. I stayed near Hill Top, once home to Beatrix Pott