Bad Dreams
Robert Crawford: Peter Porter, 6 October 2011
The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems
by Peter Porter.
Picador, 421 pp., £12.99, May 2010,978 0 330 52218 2 Show More
by Peter Porter.
Picador, 421 pp., £12.99, May 2010,
“... something self-regarding here. We learn considerably less about the dead woman than we learn about Douglas Dunn’s dead wife in his 1985 Elegies. Some readers may find it odd that the poem ends with the dead woman comforting the grieving husband; except that the German words spoken in the last line may not be wholly comforting: they beckon the guilt-ridden ... ”