Two Poems
David Wheatley, 8 May 2008
Historically, the absence of even one writer
has been the least of the Antarctic School’s worries.
Is its hallmark cool tone sustainable in today’s climate?
I suspect not, though the Old Antarctic
for ‘burning zeal’ is ‘thin ice, beware’ and ‘splash, ha ha’.
Most traditional verse forms are too complex to have been...