When I heard Harbour Publishing were releasing a posthumous book by Patrick Lane, I knew it would be a must-read collection. Lane became one of the finest writers of his generation or any other by writing poetry at once easily accessible and breathtakingly lyrical.
Patrick Lane | ARROYO
ARROYO The dead do not come riding dark horses up out of the arroyo. They do not arrive in dust grey-shrouded singing the old songs. No, they arrive like turnips pulled winter-burned and cold from the soil. They lie at your feet, worm-riddled, creased with dirt in the furrows, fallen peasants left behind in the […]