OBJECTIVE REPORTING They are casually beating a man to death passers-by glance in his direction the beaters achieve their object the beaten is past objecting to the passers-by he is an object they are objecting to a rage within it may be relived but it is not dead they go on beating they go on beating they go on beating they will go on beating. -- Anne Le Marquand HARTIGAN was born in England, her mother Irish and her father from the Channel Islands. Plays "Beds" and "La Corbiere" premiered at Dublin Theatre Festival. New poetry collection "Immortal Sins" published by Salmon Poetry 1993. Has won awards and bursaries for poetry, plays and batik.