To the War Poets by John Greening
Author:John Greening [John Greening]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781906188160
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00
funeral boat above the cataracts,
beneath the ‘imperishable stars’, where ‘God
will make it simple’. But Wadi Halfa
would be the thousand and second night
when light drains sacred power
out of Nubia to a dull, mapped
future existence, the final story,
new pylons for old. We were content
with Agatha Christie at the First Cataract
or Kitchener’s undrowned island, or over
hibiscus infusions in our flat to spell
that dry possibility of a place called
Wadi Halfa from the bright side
of the English dam. It seemed a point
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