Great Regulars: But perhaps that is the point:

[Charles] Causley was a coder, after all, and a Christian. And maybe a part of what he means to convey, here, is the way actual events and truths get lost in transmission: ships of slaughter are certainly not just metaphors. Equally, his use of the rhymed sestina, with its militarily precise variations, may indicate that, artistically, it is the code that matters. All we have to do is crack it.

General Recall

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: General Recall

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