Flossing
Andrew O’Hagan: Pukey poetry anthologies, 4 November 2004
Poems to Last a Lifetime
edited by Daisy Goodwin.
HarperCollins, 308 pp., £18.99, October 2004,0 00 717707 0 Show More
edited by Daisy Goodwin.
HarperCollins, 308 pp., £18.99, October 2004,
All the Poems You Need to Say I Do
edited by Peter Forbes.
Picador, 197 pp., £10, October 2004,0 330 43388 1 Show More
edited by Peter Forbes.
Picador, 197 pp., £10, October 2004,
“... every line a piece of advice, and every word a note to self. ‘The Compassionate Fool’ by Norman Cameron is therefore not a poem in which the scheme of rhyme and half-rhyme, the sound of the words and the weight of the stanzas, is the better part of the message; only an elitist would say that the shape of the poem somehow carries the sense of ambush ... ”