A poignant new collection from Wadham’s best living poet. Ireland, exile and death. “The Old Second Division”, “Racho”, “Dockets”, “Dream”, “Canon”, “Casella”, “Tinkers” and “The Year’s Midnight” (dedicated to the memory of Andrew Glyn) are exquisite. I’ll quote the shortest poem.
Tontine
Survivor takes all, we reflect,
standing together in the rain
outside the crematorium
under the heron’s raucous boom
as the crows mob him overhead.
by Bernard O’Donoghue
