The Dancers of Colbek by William Bedford Raymond Miller John Agard

John Agard

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“Duggan’s is a poetry that determines to surprise: almost daring a reader to exclaim:

He takes inspiration from the Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov

wryly humorous and intensely humane collection probes our emotions

The Dancers of Colbek by William Bedford Raymond Miller John AgardFrom the medieval dancers of Robert Mannyngs Handlyng Synne to Wesley, Tennyson, Lawrence and John Clare, William Bedfords The Dancers of Colbek explores his own early years among the market towns and seacoasts of Lincolnshire. There are prize winning poems from his familys history of farming, and a sequence of poems voicing John Clares experience of poverty and dispossession during the enclosures. The decline of rural ways of life is shown against a