Adam Newey
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
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Commentary - Death by a thousand cuts
- 23 July 2001
- 1 comment
What is killing poetry? The indifference of publishers or the public?
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The inner lumberjack
- 16 July 2001
Landscape With Chainsaw
James Lasdun Cape Poetry, 52pp, £8
ISBN 0224061070
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Funny business
- 25 June 2001
If I Don't Know
Wendy Cope Faber and Faber, 74pp, £8.99
ISBN 0571207677
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Walking on air
- 11 June 2001
Poems 1968-1998
Paul Muldoon Faber and Faber, 479pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571209505
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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
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Sammy White Cloud
- 02 April 2001
The Other Side of Eden
Hugh Brody Faber and Faber, 374pp, £20
ISBN 0571205968
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Paperback writer
- 12 March 2001
Blackbird Singing: lyrics and poems 1965-1999
Paul McCartney Faber & Faber, 164pp, £14.99
ISBN 0571207898
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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
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Missing in action
- 18 December 2000
Keith Douglas: the complete poems
Edited by Desmond Graham Faber & Faber, 175pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571202586
