Bookshop Window: The Dream Songs - John Berryman: Faber, pounds 9.99

This is the paperback of the complete Dream Songs, issued in hardback in 1990. The strange world of Henry and Mr Bones unravels over 400 pages of droll, whimsical invention: Henry who is 'at odds wif the world & its god', who lusts after 'the hottest one for years of night', who is always 'wicked and away'. It's a difficult companion of a book, with its constant dislocations, but the best poems have an insidious music: No 4, for instance, 'Filling her compact & delicious body . . .', or No 14, 'Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so . . .'