![]() I was also interested in Thomas Kinsella’s ‘Another September’, because I knew the house just outside Enniscorthy where it was set and I had met the poet’s wife, whose sleeping figure was evoked in the poem. ![]() In the Allott anthology I was intrigued by some of the poems that came towards the end, most notably Jon Silkin’s ‘Death of a Son’, whose last line (‘And out of his eyes two great tears rolled, like stones, and he died’) I thought sadder than anything in Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen. Alvarez, it had a crazy Jackson Pollock painting on the cover. The other was The New Poetry, also published in 1962. It had been published first in 1950, with a second edition in 1962. One was The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse, edited by Kenneth Allott. T here were two anthologies of modern poetry in our house when I was a teenager and they both offered glimpses of the world outside that were more intense, more useful, than anything on television or on albums or in ordinary books. ![]()
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