Lament or celebration?
Last week’s Saturday poem in the Guardian is Lament by the wonderful Joanna Boulter. There is more about Joanna (and more of her poems) on the Arrowhead Press web site and the Vane Women web site; and her Still Life with Figs was Diamond Twig’s first ever Poem of the Month.
Lament is taken from Twenty Four Preludes & Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich from Arc Publications, which has been shortlisted for the Forward prize for the best first collection (sponsored by Felix Dennis).