First Time in Japan Deborah Plummer and figures throughout illustrate and

and figures throughout illustrate and reinforce key concepts in an easy-to-understand manner

as well as opportunities for reflection

and what the underlying thinking was behind each set of stories

Explosive material from whistle-blowers

First Time in Japan Deborah Plummer and figures throughout illustrate andImagine a character of our time whose affinities are with the Silver Poets of Ancient Rome. A person at the pivot of middle age; cosmopolitan, yet jaundiced a hedonist with greying temples and expanding belly This is the persona whose voice permeates "First Time in Japan", enabling Anthony Howell to speak without calculating the soundness of the view expressed. As always his poems are distilled from irony, wit and an intensity of poetic craft,