A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill Although his body traps him

Although his body traps him at home

000 years by exiles

where from 1925 to 1961 the children of unmarried women were sent to live their lives in the care of nuns

Lauder has a keen ear for the musical and metrical possibilities of the well-wrought line which well serves his deftly rendered lyric style

Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse

A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron #nikitagill Although his body traps himSerious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost but not quite dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages which punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others which give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark