New PoemsThe 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

Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future

which Fleming returned in February 1950 whilst urging the publisher to reprint

then maybe he will be safe

All of the units oddest characters are here

Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same

'I have not been able to stop thinking about this book

its ruler now a god bringing darkness and chaos to the world

Free Country is another sweat-soaked Sixties-set spy thriller in the tradition of Len Deighton and Frederick Forsyth

The Rock Star

and the story continues in a land that is beset by enemies

destroying the village of Lower Slaughter as it goes

so that when a secret from the past