Rodney Pybus recently won the Peterloo Poetry Competition. His most recent collection of verse, Cicadas in their summers, was published by Carcanet last year.
for Arnost Lustig
It’s swift, this exorbitant ripple of Rs: the sound to a British ear is something, roughly, like
RORE-RAYS said fast as a bird. Trying out an odd word of yours, my tongue feels as if it’s been arrested
lurching, without papers, down a scarred road somewhere in the old centre of Europe.
But when I hear you in full cry after a story that’s getting away like a...
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