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Interviews: Stevie Smith / Peter Orr. Much further out than you thought / Jonathan Williams
The novels: Books in general / David Garnett. Preface to Novel on Yellow Paper / Mary Gordon. Fits and splinters / Hermione Lee. A child with a cold, cold eye / Joyce Carol Oates
The poems: Melancholy humor / Muriel Spark. Frivolous and vulnerable / Philip Larkin. New poetry / Terry Eagleton. Stevie Smith and the gleeful macabre / Janice Thaddeus. Play, fantasy and strange laughter: Stevie Smith's uncomfortable poetry / Martin Pumphrey. Stevie, goodbye / Philip Larkin.
The writer: Did nobody teach you? / D. J. Enright. That one must speak lightly / Michael Tatham. Of absent friends / Michael Horovitz. Horace and modernism / Calvin Bedient. Stevie Smith and the untruth of myth / Stephen Wade. Why Stevie Smith matters / Mark Storey. Stevie Smith: the art of sinking poetry / Christopher Ricks. A memorable voice: Stevie Smith / Seamus Heaney.
The novels: Books in general / David Garnett. Preface to Novel on Yellow Paper / Mary Gordon. Fits and splinters / Hermione Lee. A child with a cold, cold eye / Joyce Carol Oates
The poems: Melancholy humor / Muriel Spark. Frivolous and vulnerable / Philip Larkin. New poetry / Terry Eagleton. Stevie Smith and the gleeful macabre / Janice Thaddeus. Play, fantasy and strange laughter: Stevie Smith's uncomfortable poetry / Martin Pumphrey. Stevie, goodbye / Philip Larkin.
The writer: Did nobody teach you? / D. J. Enright. That one must speak lightly / Michael Tatham. Of absent friends / Michael Horovitz. Horace and modernism / Calvin Bedient. Stevie Smith and the untruth of myth / Stephen Wade. Why Stevie Smith matters / Mark Storey. Stevie Smith: the art of sinking poetry / Christopher Ricks. A memorable voice: Stevie Smith / Seamus Heaney.