At first I liked the heavy descriptive language, but then it got into the history of Becky's parents and became like a friend telling you an abbreviated but long history: you can tell it means something to the friend, but because they are paraphrasing, you don't get the full impact of it - they are ...
At first I liked the heavy descriptive language, but then it got into the history of Becky's parents and became like a friend telling you an abbreviated but long history: you can tell it means something to the friend, but because they are paraphrasing, you don't get the full impact of it - they are ...
The cover illustration by Christina Hardings captures much of the poem at a glance and is itself almost good enough to justify owning a copy of this slim volume; it just makes me smile to notice the classical images of figures subversively holding a briefcase and a fag, a beer can, an iPod, a Tesco ...