Polly Clark's haunting third collection is about leaving one's life
and returning a stranger. In poems which are moving and often
darkly comic, she explores the ways in which we try to hang on to
what we were, and the ways in which we accept that everything we
were certain of has gone forever. "Farewell My Lovely" is a book of
transformation in many voices, from riffs on popular songs to a
modern reworking of "Magnificat" or "Mary's Song". Polly Clark's
vivid and unswerving gaze is applied with the same intensity to a
dream of childhood, the vulnerability of a new species of bird or
the fragility of marriage, creating a powerful collection about the
price of survival. The book ends with a final farewell to innocence
in a series of poems drawn from the Falklands War.
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