The Europeans by David Clarke Mary Dickins concrete poetry

concrete poetry

these are poems that open us to new relations with the world

' – Michael Mackmin

‘I hope the exit is joyful / and I hope never to return

it mucks about with sound poetry

The Europeans by David Clarke Mary Dickins concrete poetryDavid Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys, ideas of nationhood and national identity, and the optimism of a time when Europe and the UK enjoyed a quite different entente cordiale. They are a warning against nostalgia, a lucid and prescient