28.1: MULLOWAY
Adam Aitken: Lines from The Lover
It was never a question of beauty but something else. Mind for example. For a long time you had no dress of your own, except those your mother had her servant make. D– could sew with hair-fine needles, pleats and …
Adam Aitken: Notes on the River
Prologue a river's there for cutting grass for police to drop their pants have their fill al fresco for girls to sober up on a life whittled away by extortion icons of shame drifting in the garden shadows …
John Tranter: For Robert Adamson
Rock and roll chained to the typewriter is one way of putting it, Southern Comfort is another, but without the comfort, and with the ending a surprise, as the ending repeats itself as the beginning back to front and then …
Site & contents © 2000-2012
Cordite Poetry Review unless otherwise stated