Great Regulars: This is very deft, pleasantly cunning,

and likeable in its intention of getting the reader to be interested in this group of people. So who were they? Members of something? Of what persuasion? Or orientation? Why are they keeping this apparent anniversary? Those "shopping bags strewn on cobbled ground" represent a true poetry of observation. More poets ought to produce (good, enjoyable) poems that leave us asking questions.

from The Guardian: Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame

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