Time Song by Julia Blackburn Helen Vendler The Poem Is You: Sixty

The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today

his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read

the editors masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose

and how the poem speaks to other parts of art and culture

Virginia Woolf and Polly Tandy

Time Song by Julia Blackburn Helen Vendler The Poem Is You: SixtyJulia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe,