Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first
published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day
2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until
today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving
via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Many of the poems are in the voices of combatants,
others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at
D-day and fought in France and Germany. The poems combine
understatement with a clear-eyed and unswerving candour. The
Customs House has other rooms: a group of topographies, mapping
moments in a marriage against the contingencies of place and family
history; and several 'found poems', in which the poet collaborates
with his source, mixing what is there already with what is about to
be there: whether a remarkable sonnet sequence on the last days of
the Baroque genius Francesco Borromini, or in other poems a richly
imagined extrapolation from the silent premises of a painting.
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