Today. I doubt Hamburger would’ve wanted much fanfare, but I can’t let it pass. His 2000 collection Intersections (‘Shorter Poems 1994–2000’) included, on facing pages, two of his loveliest poems, ‘Spindleberry Song’ and ‘Swans in Winter’. The final two quatrains of the first provide another example of Hamburger’s earth-rooted melancholy: Fallen leaves, let them stayWhere […]
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