The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor Keston Sutherland Celebrated author John Carey here

Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across the centuries

'Will I wake up

alighting on King Lear

Winter 2005

The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor Keston Sutherland Celebrated author John Carey herePublished December 2021. The Acts of Oblivion were a series of seventeenth century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelors poems rebel. This long awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of Englands lost futures, such as those