Monstrosities
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BfK No. 69 - July 1991
Cover Story
The illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of The Book of the Banshee by Anne Fine (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Hamish Hamilton and we thank them for their help in using Derek Brazell's illustration.
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A collection of poems about monsters, many with comically strange names, by a range of mostly well-anthologised poets: Hughes, McGough, Patten, Nash and Tolkien. Fuge's black-and-white drawings emphasise the childishness of the monsters, playing the fool with strange shapes. Darker meanings are suggested by Hughes' 'Ghost Crabs' and the haunting drawings that accompany it.
