The Last Buccaneer: Alan Ross – Poetry, Cricket and the London MagazinePoet, writer, veteran and cricket devotee, Alan Rosss brilliant editorship of the London Magazine kept alive a literary tradition. Alan Ross played a role in Britains cultural life that no one else did or could, linking not just the worlds of writing, painting and sport but the literary London of Cyril Connolly, John Lehmann, Horizon and New Writings with that of all those contemporary novelists, dramatists, travel writers and poets who appeared or