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bleak grey days are transformed into a world of glittering frost and snow-blanketed landscapes

a thigh's red-gold geometry

Elegiac and fevered

Distant sounds too are heard from captivity in a sequence of poems about the last princess of Wales

The Melancholy of Anatomy by Martin Corless-Smith Simon Armitage acceptanceIn The Melancholy of Anatomy, his ninth collection of poetry, Martin Corless Smith turns his attention towards ageing and mortality, and in particular to the death of his father. Shifting between formal verse and prose, from the metaphysical to the whimsical, from surreal to anecdotal, the book moves between poetic articulations as a mind might through memories, sifting to find anything to hold on to as everything flows and falls away. At times