A Shorter Life By Alan Jenkins

Short life unblocked games

In the best collection yet from the Deputy Editor of the Times Literary Supplement this is poetry as autobiography a wonderfully poignant evocation of a genteel suburban upbringing a wild youth and a regretful middle age A Shorter LifeSkillfull rueful enviably well hewn poems with Cole Porter level rhymes strangers hydrangeas and Seized on a street corner by the Absolute I readjust my tie flick the dandruff from my suit but also many regrettable cringe inducing phrases for example supercilious queer appears twice that help me understand why my copy from the Scottish Poetry Library is stamped WITHDRAWN Paperback