British Life in Poetry is an exciting new project run by Matt Barnard, aiming to promote poetry in Britain by posting a weekly poem by a contemporary author writing in English. I'm delighted to report that my poem ’Sooner or Later’ from The Knives of Villalejo is being featured there this week. Matt Barnard introduces it as follows:
"A poem with the concentrated precision of a haiku and one which reminds us of the shadow that hovers in the background even on the sunniest of days..."
You can read my poem at British Life in Poetry by following this link. Why not browse the archive, which is already excellent, while you're there?
DISPLACED They called her aloof, impractical, clumsy, plain. It was, they
say, difficult for her not to fall in love.In spite, that is, of the first
coughs...
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