New Poems Jonathan Cape it cuts through the apparatus

it cuts through the apparatus of life to the vivid moment

no work better captures the anguish and death-consciousness of a Europe about to plunge

who plundered the bloodstone from the Abbey of St Calliste during the war against France

Believing he can escape retribution

Betrayed by his friends - who turned their back on their ideals in favour of a new republic - and grief stricken at the loss of his apprentice

New Poems Jonathan Cape it cuts through the apparatusThe title of this collection implies more than the inability to provide a title: these are 'new' poems also in the sense that they take a different line from that pursued by the final section of Roy Fuller's Collected Poems