Out of print, but buy it from abebooks.co.uk
The forewords of these books are often insightful – in this one AL Kennedy reflects on how we value art, and poetry, in particular – which reading towards the end of 2020 amidst the challenges of COVID had a new resonance. “The arts in the UK seem always to be apologising for themselves, having to remind funders, publishers, politicians. Media outlets and all the complicated machinery of commercial reproduction that they still have value...”
The poems I tagged from this collection were:
Kim Moore – In That Year
Damain Walford Davies – Corpus
Inua Ellams – Shame is the Cape I wear – which is especially powerful and unsettling
Marilyn Hacker – Pantoum in Wartime
Arundhathi Subramaniam – My Friends
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