Martyn Crucefix
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All the bridges are down
Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023)
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We are always saying goodbye
Castaway Martyn Crucefix chooses poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edward Thomas and Rainer Maria Rilke to take to his desert island
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Ping
by Martyn Crucefix — I will talk of course / but mostly I listen / and at lunchtime / snowflakes crashing down // onto London tarmac / though you’d hardly / call this snow / perhaps even sleet // yet something more / fleecy than hailstones / is making