Breathtaking poetry -- Petrifaction -- Anti-memorial elegy -- Lapidary -- On a raised beach -- Stone thresholds -- Dilapidation and singing stones -- A shower of needles -- On the tip of the tongue -- Trying times. "In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic Jo…
"In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric - considered as an object, as an event - grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing …
"In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric - considered as an object, as an event - grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing …