English poet Kit Wright and are popular with poets.[Maggie] O'Dwyer's box becomes an elegy to her parents, containing the Sunday supper ('scallions' are spring onions) and almost now-sacred objects, sounds and smells associated with them."
from Carol Ann Duffy: The Daily Mirror: Poetry Corner
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This comes from her [Gladys Mary Coles'] collection Song Of The Butcher Bird (Flambard Press).
Like most 'protest' poems, this verse is short, sharp and angry, sharing the offbeat humour typical of Liverpool poetry. The tension between the nastily toxic ingredients and the familiar, domestic form of a recipe gives the poem its bite.
from Carol Ann Duffy: The Daily Mirror: Poetry Corner
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