Assurances by J. O. Morgan The Nameless Places old people living alone –

old people living alone – are found dead

the poems remain empathic

a leading dissident before the fall of Communism

but also in memory: both ancestral (his maternal grandfather tendered for the building of Sydney Harbour Bridge) and aboriginal

Amy Clampitt

Assurances by J. O. Morgan The Nameless Places old people living alone –A war poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction. Using a mix of versed and unversed passages, Morgan places moments of calm reflection alongside the tensions inherent in guarding against such a permanent threat. A work of variations and