These poems were all written as part of collaborative place-based projects with the artist Judith Tucker
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I was reminded throughout of Ken Smith’s lonely sequences – the fragmentation and moments of intense lyricism
Among the poets included are Alberto Caeiro
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson <b><br>PBS Spring Recommendation 2022</b> Lieke Marsman These poems were all writtenThe poems in Ephemeron deal with the short lived and transitory whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in 'Boarding School Tales', or parenting's day by day shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in 'Daughter Mother'. The long central section, 'Translations from the Pasiphae', gathers these themes together in a