There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Ira Lightman author of The Devil’s Dictionary

author of The Devil’s Dictionary

Ranging from Jam Tree Gully

dysfunctions and injustices

but the poems are sharp

The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today

There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Ira Lightman author of The Devil’s DictionaryAidan Semmenss fifth collection of poems moves from the range of the world to the deeply personal, always placing the detail in historical context. Employing a variety of poetic techniques, he moves from the moral ambiguities of empire to the run in to Brexit; from a reworking, forty years on, of the poem for which he was awarded the Cambridge University Chancellors Medal, to the breakdown of language suffered by his mother after an ultimately fatal