... while Fallon was stood down for three days for the allegedly more serious offence of “irresponsible riding of a minor nature”. Note the word minor. It is the sheer injustice of the diverse effects of the sentences which galls me. Bastiman will miss out ...

... not such a common virtue in modern verse that one can afford to ignore it. I could wish, though, this poet would drop the nature notes in the manner of Ted Hughes which have padded out his later books. He doesn’t know the fields the way he knows his Huddersfield ...