Things to Say John Whitworth com/2011/09/graham-collier

com/2011/09/graham-collier

from survivors of the big bands of the 1930s and 40s to modern soloists in many styles

and novelist Halim Barakat introduced by Bassam Frangieh

since the first snowdrop came shouldering up through the frost

Things to Say John Whitworth com/2011/09/graham-collierA modern poet who, something of a rarity, talks about class and politics as well as love and art, John Lucas craft has been developed over the past five decades. John Lucas ninth full collection of poetry begins with a long poem echoing Audens 'Letter to Lord Byron', and discusses love, art, politics, social class and the industrial midlands. He then moves on to wars, ancient and modern, concluding with Lucas alter ego, Thorn Gruin, moaning pitifully