This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Autumn’ by Rhiannon Hooson from her collection The Other City.
Rhiannon Hooson’s debut collection The Other City was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize. Sharply focused, beautifully resonant, and deeply felt, these poems reference and re-make narratives from classical Greek myth, while others rework elements of Welsh history, ancient and modern.
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