“Those who admire Di Slaney’s sophisticated and dexterous poems will be deeply grateful for this first full collection
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but always captures reality
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry
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Waiting for the Nightingale by Miles Burrows Pascale Petit “Those who admire Di Slaney’sMiles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused as lovers tend to be by the inconstant nature of the other. In this, his second book of poems, published half a century after the first (A Vultures Egg, 1966), he is also aware, merrily for the most part, of mortality. Eros and Thanatos tap at his funny bone. Does God exist? he asks. Will the nightingale, the one right nightingale, sing? The landscapes of these poems are drawn from the Far East, New