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Published: 12-Apr-2013
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Story Summary Today in history of art we did Roman wall-painting, studied a freize of musicians from Herculaneum;
fluteplayers - their mouthpieces still fresh-whittled from under the hot lava - master and pupil fingering the stops.
What caught in my throat was not their swift embedding, but how at that last lesson before my parents knew, you took the flute from my lips pressed your mouth to mine and flutter-tongued.
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Acclaimed English poet. Her determinedly neo-romantic poetry explores sacred myth, legend, history-in-landscape, and human feeling—and their connections to the 'inner landscapes' of the imaginative mind. Her choice of subject matter is perhaps partly a reaction to her growing up in the industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent. The compact vividness of her visual imagery is akin to that of the Anglo Saxon riddles, Symbolist poetry, or the work of García Lorca.