Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage Lucy Dawkins " - Sara Keating

" - Sara Keating

sons or daughters in permanent danger – or so they feel – as well as from an often alienating everyday world of people who have no idea of what anxieties and fears grip them every minute

Many of the poets in the anthology have arrived via the pages of PN Review

The poem wants to know what it can't yet know

Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage Lucy Dawkins " - Sara KeatingGrowing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night time view from his bedroom window, those 'private, moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in the village providing rich subject matter for his first poems. Decades on, that window continues to operate as both framework and focal point for the writing, the vastness of the surrounding moors