There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Ira Lightman to the delights of life

to the delights of life in London

dysfunctions and injustices

The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today

Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead ‘sleep on the wing’

There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Ira Lightman to the delights of lifeAidan Semmenss fifth collection of poems moves from the range of the world to the deeply personal, always placing the detail in historical context. Employing a variety of poetic techniques, he moves from the moral ambiguities of empire to the run in to Brexit; from a reworking, forty years on, of the poem for which he was awarded the Cambridge University Chancellors Medal, to the breakdown of language suffered by his mother after an ultimately fatal