sweeping libraries near you, and the nation remembering Charles Darwin at 200, Ruth Padel pays tribute to her great-great grandfather in this compelling sequence of biographical poems (Darwin: A Life in Poems, Chatto & Windus, £12.99). This one imagines Darwin aged ten, in 1819, when his family went on holiday to Plas Edwards, or Barmouth, in North Wales.'A child on a beach, alone.
from The Scotsman: Poem of the Week
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