Luke Wright – Poor Rude Lines: poetry reviews & recommendations by John Field

Timewatching – Luke Wright’s The Toll

My father’s watch clasps my wrist now. Big shoes to fill, his shoes. The removal of three links slimmed it for my scrawny wrist yet, standing by my chair, my five year old son, puzzling its butterfly catch, lets it slip down his arm to nestle in the crook of his elbow. A single goldenContinue reading “Timewatching – Luke Wright’s The Toll”

Et in arcadia ego – Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan

Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, published immediately post-war in 1945, elegises landscape and lifestyle. The outsider Charles Ryder is drawn towards the bohemian Sebastian Flyte and his house and family. Using flashback, post-war austerity throws the vanished colour of Brideshead into relief. Revisiting Brideshead on active service, Flyte sees that its farm ‘had been marked forContinue reading “Et in arcadia ego – Luke Wright’s What I Learned from Johnny Bevan”