John Fuller
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Toughness & tenderness: on ‘Crisis Actor’ by Declan Ryan
John Fuller How can we be prepared for all the difficult life-choices we may have to make? It’s a commonplace that there can be no rehearsal for life, since life has already begun. At the core of ‘Halcyon Days’, a beautiful love poem, and one of the longer and most philosophical in Declan Ryan’s very…
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‘Waverley, 4.05.’ – a poem by John Fuller
The below poem is taken from John Fuller’s new, semi-autobiographical collection of poetry, Asleep & Awake, recently published by Chatto & Windus. Waverley, 4.05. At Waverley, at Waverley, Although I didn’t show it, I knew a certain thing that Needed knowing, At Waverley. A resolve in the heart Deeper than…
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‘Rhiannon’: a poem by John Fuller
©Paul Stuart Rhiannon 1 One evening, having dined in my estate Among my many men, merry and wise, I took the air outside the palace, late In the day, but not too late to lift my eyes To where the sun still spun his daily heat Down the tall hill…
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‘Somewhere’: a poem by John Fuller
Somewhere Somewhere I once belonged. Who knows where? But like the map englobed My journey’s clear. I must find out. I must go there. For the past is space That must be crossed, Memory a face That’s not quite lost. Somewhere within me A remembered promise, Hard to misprove, A spoken word That is…