This poem is taken from PN Review 100, Volume 21 Number 2, November - December 1994.
Five Poems
The Grimness: BBC Radio 4, Tuesday, 8.30pm
We don't talk much
but when we talk
we talk about the Grimness.
Almost a cliché
in this muck.
Ah, the Grimness.
I remember it well.
And now on Radio 4
the poet Ian McMillan
presents a feature
on the Grimness of 1993
and what it did.
He talks to a number of people
who survived it
and some who
didn't.
Such a big microphone
It just sort of sat there
on the settee.
Occasionally it looked at
...
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