Lanyard by Peter Sansom #pennedinthemargins Distinctive and assured

Distinctive and assured

and faces the tragic life of our nation and our planet

Sincerity is Duffy’s final collection of poems as Poet Laureate

whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers

the tent’s inhabitant existing at the margins

Lanyard by Peter Sansom #pennedinthemargins Distinctive and assured'On First Hearing Careless Whisper' is one of several poems in this brilliant new collection that put time on pause in order to look at life through art: 1980s pop, painting, or a congeries of writers including Emily Bronte, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, D. H. Lawrence, Alice Munro, Fernando Pessoa and the New York Poets and several of Sansom's beloved contemporaries. But the richness of family life is at the centre of this assured and utterly open book by