Time Begins to Hurt by Pippa Little Wendy Cope Lord Byron puffs and preens

Lord Byron puffs and preens at his reflection

like the hotel manager

philosophical

Kristín Ómarsdóttir’s work resists the sweet

Time Begins to Hurt by Pippa Little Wendy Cope Lord Byron puffs and preens"The world of Little's poems is a dark one, for sure, where "the harm the damage" we humans inflict on the environment, on one another is rendered unflinchingly. Her poems about family, for instance, make it clear that 'social distancing' is not just a phenomenon of the past two years. Love is present too, often inextricably bound up with the pain it can cause ("I keep loving you like an old bruise still tender") but expressed in such rich and