Buy Memorial from Faber and Faber Names assume epic proportions when listed. The Roman Catholic church’s First Eucharistic Prayer seduces with its exotic incantations, the priest intoning the names of the saints through a haze of incense: Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus. In the opening pages of Memorial, Oswald presents her reader withContinue reading “Alice Oswald’s Memorial”
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Poor Rude Lines: poetry reviews & recommendations by John Field 