STONE AND STUCCO
IN THE TOWER’S SHADOW. By N. &. Cruickshank. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. THE NINTH WAVE. By Geoffrey Johnson. George G. Harrap and Co. Lid., London. HE first of these writers comes to poetry with a reserved reluctance. Miss Cruickshank’s packed laconic style, her strong rather than melodious rhythms, betoken no breathless eagerness to write. Concentration of thought, dignity, modest assurance, are her qualities, and she is also the objective narratorFriends called them fools,’ preposterous, insane; The pile of. letters mounted in the hall, And _ brass-voiced gongs were banged for them in vain. The Oxford Press is to be commended for its habit of publishing minor poets | of talent who may one day "do mair." Geoffrey Johnson has talent too, the talent of a rhetorician, of a Georgian. Half wild with love for the weatherreddened faces, The dear scarred knees and unspeakably muddy fingers. He is a sort of poetic Russell Flint, producing a brilliant surface effect whose impact is immediate and can rarely be felt again at a second reading.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 17
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175STONE AND STUCCO New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 17
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