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TITLE: Ted Hughes: A Literary Life
AUTHOR: Neil Roberts
PUBLISHER: Macmillan (Nov. 2006)
ISBN: 1-4039-3605-6 PRICE: £45.00 (hardback) 245 pages

Reviewed by Ann Skea (ann@skea.com).
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" As a young man, Ted Hughes must have seemed blessed. He was extravagantly
gifted, as his juvenile poetry shows, and was warmly encouraged by his family
and teachers. From a socially and economically modest background in Yorkshire,
he won a place at Cambridge, despite performing poorly in his entrance exam:
his teacher persuaded the college to accept him because of his talent as a
writer".

Such was the beginning of a writing life which eventually led to Ted Hughes
being offered the most prestigious position for any poet in Britain, that of
Poet Laureate. This was a position he occupied for fourteen years until his
death in 1998.

TITLE: Moral Disorder
AUTHOR: Margaret Atwood
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury (Oct. 2006)
ISBN: 9780747581628 PRICE: $39.95 (hardback) 505pages

Reviewed by Ann Skea (ann@skea.com).
************************************************
Moral Disorder is a strange title for a book of short stories which read like
chapters in an autobiography. The photograph...

TITLE: The Human Touch
AUTHOR: Michael Frayn
PUBLISHER: Faber (Nov. 2006)
ISBN:0 571 23217 5 PRICE: $59.95 (hardback) 505pages

Reviewed by Ann Skea (ann@skea.com).
************************************************
You have to admire Michael Frayn's courage. He has taken on all the major
problems that philosophers have argued about over the centuries; all the major
assumptions about the universe which underlie the scientific experiments on
which we spend billions; and all the ethical credos on which we base our
judicial system; and he has come to the conclusion that we make it all up.

He may, of course, be right. But his totally anthropocentric view of the
universe - a sort of unified field theory of philosophy - suggests that none
of the truth we think we have discovered over the centuries is necessarily
true: that whatever is out there (and he agrees that there is something out
there which we see, feel, smell, hear etc.) may, for all we know, just be
meaningless chaos.

TITLE: Tanglewreck
AUTHOR: Jeanette Winterson
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Children's (July 2006)
ISBN:0 7475 8064 2 PRICE: $16.95 (paperback) 415pages

Reviewed by Ann Skea (ann@skea.com).
************************************************
Silver is a small, freckled, orange-haired eleven-year-old. Her family
disappeared whilst on a train-trip to London and since then she has been
looked after by her aunt Mrs Rockabye. Actually, Mrs Rockabye is like the
wicked stepmother in Cinderella, so she makes sure that Silver does all the
work and she keeps her in the cellar and feeds her on scraps. Mrs Rockabye's
chief ally is her pet rabbit (called Bigamous "on account of his habits") who,
unless Silver can bribe him with carrots, spies on her every move.

Silver's Elizabethan ancestor, Roger Rover, was knighted for being a
successful pirate and bringing back great treasures for the queen. One of
these treasures was a wonderful Alchemical Timekeeper and Silver, although she
does not know it, is its guardian and is the holder of the secret of Time.
There are, however, people in the world who know about Silver and who want
that secret.

TITLE: The Laughter of Foxes (Second Edition)
AUTHOR: Keith Sagar
PUBLISHER: Liverpool University Press and University of Chicago Press
(October 2006)
PRICE: US $30.00 £18.50 (paperback) ISBN 1-84631-011-3 230
pages

Reviewed by Ann Skea (ann@skea.com).
************************************************
This is not, nor can it be, a critical review, since my own extensive study of
Ted Hughes' work leaves me very much in agreement with Keith Sagar's
interpretation of Hughes's imaginative purpose, methods and achievement.

Keith Sagar is unique amongst scholarly critics of Ted Hughes' work. Hughes
regarded him as a friend and they met and corresponded with each other for
more than twenty years. Hughes also valued his judgment to the extent that he
reinstated some dropped Cave Birds poems in the sequence at his instigation
and, much later, used him as a sort of "devil's advocate" (Hughes' words) to
refine the theory which lies at the heart of Shakespeare and the Goddess of
Complete Being. The letters which they exchanged are now in the archives of
the British Library.

TITLE: The Saint Botolph's Review No.2
EDITORS: David Andrews Ross and Daniel Weissbort
PUBLISHER: Viper Press ( May 2006)
ISBN:0 9552925 0 6 PRICE: US$18.00 or £10 (p & p included) 34 pages

SEND CHEQUES ONLY with postal address to Viper Press, 3 Powys Gardens, London,
NW11 8HH, UK

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'Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes': these linked names, like 'Cathy and Heathcliff'
now resonate with a whole romantic, tragic story, but this story began just
fifty years ago when a new literary magazine, the Saint Botolph's Review, was
launched.

In 1956, like all those involved with the Review, Sylvia and Ted were young,
unknown Cambridge undergraduates. Sylvia, at 24, was an American Fulbright
Scholar who had been up at Cambridge for just a few months. Ted, at 26, was
(as he wrote in Birthday Letters) "sitting youth away" in a temporary office
job in London and "recidived / Into Alma Mater" at weekends to be with his
friends.

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"Frauds, Spies, and Lies", Fred Cohen, 2005, 1-878109-36-7,
U$29.95/C$33.45
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%%P 234 p.
%%T "Frauds, Spies, and Lies: and How to Defeat Them"

BKDBLVSN.RVW 20060716

"Double Vision", Randall Ingermanson, 2004, 0-7642-2733-5, U$12.99
%%A Randall Ingermanson doublevision@rsingermanson.com
%%C 11400 Hampshire Ave. South, Bloomington, Minnesota 55438
%%D 2004
%%G 0-7642-2733-5
%%I Bethany House
%%O U$12.99 www.bethanyhouse.com
%%O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764227335/robsladesinterne
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%%O Audience n- Tech 1 Writing 1 (see revfaq.htm for explanation)
%%P 384 p.
%%T "Double Vision"