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
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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
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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
