Pomona's Orchard by Adrian Blamires Poetry offering neither resolution nor retreat

offering neither resolution nor retreat

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With an extraordinary structure

Their imaginative boldness and their crisp linguistic dexterity are a delight

Pomona's Orchard by Adrian Blamires Poetry offering neither resolution nor retreatPomona's Orchard, Adrian Blamires' third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, the enlightened schoolmaster to an orphaned John Keats, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard. Miracles of love and healing are conjured in the face of violence and rapacity. Lament and