Birds with a Broken Wing (Cape, £9), has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize. It is haunted by "the slight bruise of doubt", by what's lost, secret, or misunderstood--as in this first poem of two about Beirut. While the poet escaped, the situation has stalled. Ambiguity 1958
from The Scotsman: Poem of the Week
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