The Gravity Wave by Peter Sirr
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2019 Ruth Padel published in 2002

published in 2002

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But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness

a logical and curious child adrift in an arbitrary world

The Gravity Wave by Peter Sirr <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2019</b> Ruth Padel published in 2002Peter Sirr draws on the classics Homer, Catullus, Sappho to ask if we, in comparison, live in a disenchanted world: Diminished? Really? Gods dont hold us, the temples wither, the priests are all in sales but the sun still shines, the oxen low and the winedark sea is still as dark as wine. He acknowledges world traumas the Final Solution, Shahad, Rawan, Maram this hand in the rubble these broken shutters shrapnel on the bed cover while risking, as