20/05/2024
The Fortnightly Review has made this 'show don't tell' memoir-essay on the question 'What is Poetry?' available here—
Death keeps — an indifferent host — this house of call, whose sign-board wears no boast save Beds for All. —Sylvia Townsend Warren, 'East London Cemetery' And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom, And a crossing breeze cuts a pause in its outrollings, Till they rise aga...