Hoard by Fleur Adcock

Author:Fleur Adcock
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780373973
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books

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‘It ate the food it ne’er had eat’ –

biscuit-worms given it by the mariners,

until you edited them out.

This was no spontaneous effusion,

say what they might, but the work of ardent months,

and long after Cottle came from Bristol

to discuss the printing it foamed through your head,

demanding to be tinkered with, modernised, glossed:

a nautical image from your trip to Malta

spliced in, some Chaucerian diction expunged…

You didn’t need Mr Grouch and his Preface –

‘The Poem of my Friend has indeed great defects’ –

to keep you going back to fondle it.

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