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The above quotation is from Denise Riley's 2012 essay Time Lived, Without Its Flow, a meditation on bereavement that could stand as a companion piece to the poems in her extraordinary new collection. The distinct energy of the piece is a reminder of Oswald's considerable dramatic talent that infused her book-length poems Dart (2002) and A Sleepwalk on the Severn (2009). Hughes is invoked in the short lyric "Fox", a slippery poem in which the famous midnight visitor is gendered female and then re-gendered, "a woman with a man's voice / but no name". [Extracted from the article] |
