Louring Skies Poems 19771981 Author:William Radice Reviewing William Radice's last book in `Thames Poetry', AA Cleary wrote that his poems `sustain interest with a most attractive and unforced but crisp style... All the poems are quite haunting.' His range and skill as a narrative poet are shown here in three extended poems or sequences. `People' is a series of simple and touching portraits, con... more »cerned with illusion and disillusion: a variety of men and women reflect on their lives. `Aeneas', is a Vergilian descent into the underworld of a mental hospital; its powerful realism is combined with an allegorical dimension. By contrast, `Songs of a Schoolmaster' is a ferocious, splenetic satire, with a serious underlying purpose, evident throughout the book: the exploration of how people try to reconcile their sense of the sinfulness of the world with their love for it.« less