This poem is taken from PN Review 271, Volume 49 Number 5, May - June 2023.

Special Friend

Gillian Clarke
Special friend to scribblers the likes of me,

who scrawl in the backwoods obsessively,
as words went winging through cyberspace,
you gave to our writing a stage, a space.
So much would be lost were it not for you,
Carcanet Press and the PN Review.

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