https://oldclearing.littletoller.co.uk/2014/07/philip-lancaster-two-new-poems-2/ Sat, 28 May 2016 12:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 https://oldclearing.littletoller.co.uk/2014/07/philip-lancaster-two-new-poems-2/#comment-79477 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 16:55:04 +0000 http://theclearingonline.org/?p=915#comment-79477 I particularly enjoyed reading Relic of Hope. Those almost Nordic hyphenated kennings and the progressive tense give the poem a harsh urgency I like very much. Those progressive verbs also provide a lovely, subtle link between past and present.

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