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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