Sorrow | Stored - with Paul Stephenson

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Go on. Press the button. Paul Stephenson guides us through a choice of his varied, formally diverse and moving elegies in his Carcanet collection Hard Drive -- written in the years following his partner's sudden death -- and find a curiously life-affirming exploration of grief and its aftermath.
Robin and Peter also make their way across Europe (simultaneously in both the 21st and the 19th Centuries) in the company of Janet Sutherland whose The Messenger House (Shearsman Books) is a highly-ambitious weaving of history, poetry and travelogue. At the border, we flag down Charlotte Gann to examine her Cargo -- a characteristically brilliant new pamphlet by published by Mariscat Press. And, tugging at the long roots of prosimetra, we find Boethius, Dante, David Jones and a 12th Century bloke called Hugh of Bologna.

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