Gerald Dawe’s most recent collection is Lake Geneva (2003). He is currently a visiting professor at Boston College.
for Kevin and Eve
When the street has gone all so quiet except for the police car that whizzes up and down at the same time every night –
when the timbers jolt and the radiators click-click and the action of the clock gets ready to strike – I stumble across a blustery waste ground,
a cliff face, a dozen streets of little houses, under a full moon, blinded by the light of a door...
In a recent Times article, Philip Howard pounced on the deplorable word ‘Valorisation’ which seems to be trying to edge its way into the English language. ‘To enhance the price,...
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