Departure Lounge by John Barnie Menna Elfyn raw and tender

raw and tender

Martha Kapos

skin ages with grace when we see beauty in everything

written in the 1950s

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Departure Lounge by John Barnie Menna Elfyn raw and tenderDeparture Lounge returns to the theme of mortality with characteristic insight and honesty. Concerned not only with how we characterise and cope with death, but with a sense of urgency for all that is being lost, culturally or ecologically, this is deeply intelligent collection. Accessible, yet exacting; lyrical, but without a wasted word, these poems unspool in single, unassailable sentences that ring with truth.