Poem: ‘How does it feel? Thoughts on Tony Harrison’s poem ‘A Cold Coming’’
Ian Gregson, 14 May 1992
He saw the photo on the Sunday, started writing on the Monday
how the dead Iraqi spoke like Palinurus or that bloke
in ‘Strange Meeting’: you’ll have read before about the talking dead –
no problem then for this charred head, except for how and what it said,
for when it leant into his mike it sounded like a pissed-off tyke,
it sounded like his loiner dad, someone a...