Veii and other poems by Robert Wells #Translation though few could memorialise it

though few could memorialise it with such verbal energy

and a sequence of poems voicing John Clare’s experience of poverty and dispossession during the enclosures

they go off into free-wheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy

2014) and The Man Alone: New & Selected Poems (2008)

Owen Bullock

Veii and other poems by Robert Wells #Translation though few could memorialise itThe title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the poet discovered an incised potsherd: 'Was that the day when antiquity The place where all is over and done Took ineluctable hold of me?' The poems return to familiar places and themes from a later 'now', a revised perspective: memories are real, perhaps