on December 19, 1986, delivers its gently postmodern payoff with a winning lightness. One can read it as a wry Larkinesque reflection on ageing and perspective, a typically English stoic grumble; or perhaps--picking up on the notes of authoritarianism and diminished agency--as a subtle comment on the narrowing of political possibilities during the decade of Thatcherism. [by Alan Brownjohn]
Observation Car
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Observation Car
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