News at Eleven: The remembered scene, the doomed affair,

the thickening of time inside the poem and sense of it flicking past outside: these are all things [Bernard] Spencer learned from [Louis] MacNeice, but he learned them by heart, and wields them on his own. The "salaams" show distinct realms of experience infusing and enlivening one another, as life in Turkey is brought fruitfully to bear on the English country house.

from The Guardian: Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer--review

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