Poem of the week: Thames by John Challis

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Bobbing and jostling with assorted fragments, London’s unsettled river here loses and finds its human past

, and the collection is concerned with all kinds of disinterment and revitalisation. In the title poem, the speaker shows us a corpse, filched for experimental resurrection, “jerking on the table / at the dawn of electricity” and asserts: “I too feel the urge to make something / out of nothing and profit from this work: / the page my barrow and my charge the word.

 

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Not the actor of the same name who passed away this weekend. Careless, tactless mistake here.

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