Adam Newey

Articles by Adam Newey

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Of saints and martyrs

  • 01 October 2001

Here to Eternity: an anthology of poetry Selected by Andrew Motion Faber and Faber, 402pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571204643 The Forward Book of Poetry 2002 Foreword by Christina Patterson Forward, 150pp, £7.95 Poems of the Decade Selected by William Sieghart Forward, 256pp, £9.95

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
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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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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