Geoffrey Godbert
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The eternal things that go on
in places like Vienna, Prague,
Madrid, St Petersburg, New York
and, of course, always in Paris,
came to mind as I listened
to this attractive, charming
young legal coolness charting
my last will and testament,
mentioning death and burial
several times like holiday
destinations you’d better book
early to avoid disappointment
in what’s left of forever,
and where (if this marvellously
immortal and youthful lawyer
said so) I could find heaven
on earth and, like her, never die.
in places like Vienna, Prague,
Madrid, St Petersburg, New York
and, of course, always in Paris,
came to mind as I listened
to this attractive, charming
young legal coolness charting
my last will and testament,
mentioning death and burial
several times like holiday
destinations you’d better book
early to avoid disappointment
in what’s left of forever,
and where (if this marvellously
immortal and youthful lawyer
said so) I could find heaven
on earth and, like her, never die.
Geoffrey Godbert has eight poetry collections and is co-editor of two Faber anthologies.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The