The Whispering RootsC. Day Lewis is the first Poet Laureate to regard himself as 'an expatriate son of Ireland'. In his new book he shows himself freshly aware of the voices that come to him from his Anglo Irish heredity and early environment. Besides elegant and charactersitic evocations of persons and places he had known in Ireland, there are several poems which celebrate the Easter rising of 1916 and such figures as Countess Markievicz and Michael Collins. The second

Mei is a modern

Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way

An assassin lurks in the darkness between earth and oblivion but who are they

in a prose that is highly personal

In a pleasant village

in the world of Scion

Matt Logan is an MI5 agent for the British government

Under Orions stars

and an ode to the enduring power of memory

architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street

she does so with reluctance

Salamandastron's only hope is a badger