Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Great Regulars: With this outstanding volume,

his [Matthew Francis's] place among contemporary British poetry's aristocracy is confirmed.

Each poem in this brief, beautiful book conforms to the same strict template: a 45-syllable sestet in which the lines, declining in length from 13 syllables to four, enact the sense of distillation, of homing in, that is a crucial feature of these poems.

from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Flashes of light

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