Poetry Review leads with the line ... One hundred years and
counting ... and the display page has variety in graphics with
presentation of the international brigade, beauty and risk, psycho-geographies reviews of Betjeman and others and the frontpage is arresting I assure you and your heart will skip a beat when you turn the page and find poems by Seamus Heaney ...
"An Old Refrain" ...
Who could say
When the wordscape changes
You don't know where
Lyrically lovely I assure you and doubling back I found ..
"Derry Derry Down"
Gooseberry I scratched my hand
Reaching in
Reminds the reader of the old saying "dont be a gooseberry" as a gooseberry is the piggy in the middle the lady without a man so get a man if you cannot do that get a man later on!
I read that Paul Muldoon was Seamus Heaney's student but since they look alike in some respects it would be hard to say other than - they combine to write great lines of poetry here in Poetry Review 99-3 Autumn 2009 ...
"the song of us two together" poem title: Wulf and Eadwacer by Paul Muldooon -
Finally I did meet Fleur Adcock and she is included with her dynamic poem "Dragon talk" ..
"my echo, my parrot"
"my tolerant slave"
reads like a US Pick Me Up blog which is received here in Hampshire weekly from the USA but nevertheless is enlivening and so is Fleur Adcock's poetry. Lots more to keep the reader busy all during this long week .. nice work!