The Less Deceived
A cyclist stops at an empty country church, takes off his cycle-clips in awkward reverence and wonders what will happen when churches fall completely out of use; elsewhere a ruined Victorian girl is addressed across a century, retired racehorses stand in a field with their names gone, and a man decides that toads squat on his life. The voice is flat, provincial and unillusioned, and it set the tone for English poetry for thirty years. His first mature collection, arriving after he had put Yeats aside for Hardy.
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