‘The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it.’ In a recent piece of detective work in Poetry Nation Review, John Clegg identifies the location of Louis MacNeice’s 1935 poem ’Snow’. The roses were brought from … Continue reading ‘Soundlessly collateral and incompatible’
Tag: David Jones
‘Physically, the book was not clearly readable’
Ive been interested in the recent articles at the back of PNR about book design - interviews with Phil Cleaver and Sarah Schulte. It’s led me to compare editions, where I have two copies of the same book. Here is David Jones’ ’In Parenthesis’, one of the great long poems of the twentieth century; the … Continue reading ‘Physically, the book was not clearly readable’

