Weemoed by Tim Dooley PBS Recommendation Winter 2017 Nine Arches Press ‘Never have I wanted to

‘Never have I wanted to be understood so much as in this poem

yet reminds one why his work still matters

Again and again

winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

and poems of the political imagination

Weemoed by Tim Dooley <b> PBS Recommendation Winter 2017 </b> Nine Arches Press ‘Never have I wanted toThe Dutch word for melancholy, 'Weemoed', could be read according to Vincent Van Gogh, as a combination of sadness and courage. In his first collection of completely new work since 2008's Keeping Time, Dooley considers the persistence of the past in the present with poems that are witty, elegiac and intelligent. While it remembers the dead throughout, Weemoed is a collection brimming with life, whether updating Arthurian legend, exploring the British