The Europeans by David Clarke Mary Dickins troubling proportion and upsetting propriety

troubling proportion and upsetting propriety in the name of unfathomable propagation

' – Michael Mackmin

When Jess Green joined the Labour Party at university she doubled the number of members who met weekly in the Liverpool Philarmonic pub

his verse picks at words to test their efficacy and authenticity

‘I hope the exit is joyful / and I hope never to return

The Europeans by David Clarke Mary Dickins troubling proportion and upsetting proprietyDavid Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys, ideas of nationhood and national identity, and the optimism of a time when Europe and the UK enjoyed a quite different entente cordiale. They are a warning against nostalgia, a lucid and prescient