Great Regulars: And yet the mystery on which [Fleur] Adcock

touches so lightly here is deep indeed: the way life dissolves into death and back again across a membrane made permeable by the imagination. Or, as she once put it, "Ancestors and poetry and religion are the same. All about wonder. Having a sense of wonder."

Over the Edge

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Over the Edge

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