‘The Other’ is one of Edward Thomas’s earliest poems, written towards the end of 1914, and also one of his longest, about his sense of there always being a doppelganger or alter ego somewhere ahead of him that he can … Continue reading →| David Sutton
Poetry and the landscape are changing – and the poets are on the move. On a train leaving Paddington, to be precise, on a Sunday in April c.1943, in a special carriage stuffed with them. Joseph Gurnard’s Poets’ Excursion is an extended metaphor of the shifting tide of British poetry and of the changing face of the landscape poets wrote…Continue Reading→| Rattlebag and Rhubarb