A Book of Psalms by Alan Baker Sylvia Plath In poems that record -

In poems that record - with courage and tenderness - the loss of loved ones

from behind museum glass

as do early poems by Philip Larkin

In his use of archival documents as a space for activism and linguistic intervention

A Book of Psalms by Alan Baker Sylvia Plath In poems that record -A Book of Psalms is about a life retrieved in which the commonplace is made new in poetry and everyday experience is undramatically revealed as approaching the miraculous. Gazing through the windows of the public library offers a prosaic starkness, 'Leaking radiators, polished floors, books on everyday wellness' somehow transformed via a 'Leaf vein atlas suddenly awake to sun on wings,' so that in a playground, at the side of the road with cars