Laura (Riding) JacksonTHE RUGGED BLACK OF ANGERThe rugged black of anger Has an uncertain smile-border. The transition from one kind to another May be love between neighbour and neighbour; Or natural death; or discontinuance Because so small is space The extent of kind must be expressed otherwise; Or loss of kind when proof of no uniqueness […]
Introduction by Jack Blackmore Trent Editions, 2020. £12.00. 210 pp. ISBN 9781842331699. A new edition of the 1930 collection, Jonathan Cape, London In April 1929 Laura Riding, then aged 28, stepped off the the window-ledge of the London flat she shared with Robert Graves, breaking her spine. Just fifteen months later Jonathan Cape published Poems: A […]