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Not in so many words.
Smith/Doorstop Books, The Poetry Business, The Studio, Bryam Arcade, Westgate, Huddersfield HD1 1ND £7.00.
Not in so many words, Poetry Business's Writing School Anthology has an unusual feature - poets commenting in some detail about their selected poems. This could be a bad idea as a poem should work on its own merits and be its own meaning. In this case, the poets have written eloquent pieces that are virtually essays or feature articles. Jane Routh's poem, The River Pilot's Wife is effective: '...Look, back there, that's Read's Island, where he'd show her / the mandarin ducks' nest. Every spring as long as she can remember // lifting her to the bank to keep her skirts dry. Bending the reeds for her to see...' to '...She knows her own nights and days now governed by moons, her own tide turned, that flood of expectation now ebb and the fear of loss'. The commentary shows a surprising amount of research, including on wildlife along the Humber, the nineteenth century Hull fishing indusry and a walk along the mouth of the Lune Estuary reminded her of mudflats in evening light.
Smith/Doorstop Books, The Poetry Business, The Studio, Bryam Arcade, Westgate, Huddersfield HD1 1ND £7.00.
Not in so many words, Poetry Business's Writing School Anthology has an unusual feature - poets commenting in some detail about their selected poems. This could be a bad idea as a poem should work on its own merits and be its own meaning. In this case, the poets have written eloquent pieces that are virtually essays or feature articles. Jane Routh's poem, The River Pilot's Wife is effective: '...Look, back there, that's Read's Island, where he'd show her / the mandarin ducks' nest. Every spring as long as she can remember // lifting her to the bank to keep her skirts dry. Bending the reeds for her to see...' to '...She knows her own nights and days now governed by moons, her own tide turned, that flood of expectation now ebb and the fear of loss'. The commentary shows a surprising amount of research, including on wildlife along the Humber, the nineteenth century Hull fishing indusry and a walk along the mouth of the Lune Estuary reminded her of mudflats in evening light.
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