The Europeans by David Clarke Mary Dickins troubling proportion and upsetting propriety

troubling proportion and upsetting propriety in the name of unfathomable propagation

‘I hope the exit is joyful / and I hope never to return

concrete poetry

the majority of poets have not yet been widely translated or included in a bilingual anthology of this scope

his verse picks at words to test their efficacy and authenticity

The Europeans by David Clarke Mary Dickins troubling proportion and upsetting proprietyDavid Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys, ideas of nationhood and national identity, and the optimism of a time when Europe and the UK enjoyed a quite different entente cordiale. They are a warning against nostalgia, a lucid and prescient