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Articles by Adam Newey

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Auntie Alan. The cult of Alan Bennett, the nation's favourite teddy bear, is tiresome, writes Adam Newey. He is provincial, class-obsessed and nostalgic

  • 17 September 2001

Backing into the Limelight: the biography of Alan Bennett
Alexander Games Headline, 320pp, £18.99
ISBN 0747270309

Commentary - Death by a thousand cuts

  • 23 July 2001
  • 1 comment

What is killing poetry? The indifference of publishers or the public?

The inner lumberjack

  • 16 July 2001

Landscape With Chainsaw
James Lasdun Cape Poetry, 52pp, £8
ISBN 0224061070

Funny business

  • 25 June 2001

If I Don't Know
Wendy Cope Faber and Faber, 74pp, £8.99
ISBN 0571207677

Walking on air

  • 11 June 2001

Poems 1968-1998
Paul Muldoon Faber and Faber, 479pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571209505

A scratchy woollen jumper that doesn't quite fit. Adam Newey finds too much romanticised Oirishness in Seamus Heaney's poetry

  • 16 April 2001

Electric Light
Seamus Heaney Faber and Faber, 96pp, £14.99 hbk
ISBN 0571207626

Sammy White Cloud

  • 02 April 2001

The Other Side of Eden
Hugh Brody Faber and Faber, 374pp, £20
ISBN 0571205968

Paperback writer

  • 12 March 2001

Blackbird Singing: lyrics and poems 1965-1999
Paul McCartney Faber & Faber, 164pp, £14.99
ISBN 0571207898

Working-class hero

  • 22 January 2001

The Return
Andrei Platonov, translated by Robert Chandler et al Harvill Press, 215pp, £9.99
ISBN 1860465161

The Portable Platonov
Translated and with commentaries by Robert Chandler Glas New Russian Writing, Volume 20, 256pp, £8.99

Missing in action

  • 18 December 2000

Keith Douglas: the complete poems
Edited by Desmond Graham Faber & Faber, 175pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571202586

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