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their secrets and their hopes
as one poem observes of a glider riding a thermal
but always captures reality
Poets writing in other languages read in the original with the English translations read by themselves or by their translators or given as subtitles
‘There are these things and sometimes the shadow of these things / but they will not be seen apart
Waiting for the Nightingale by Miles Burrows Pascale Petit their secrets and their hopesMiles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused as lovers tend to be by the inconstant nature of the other. In this, his second book of poems, published half a century after the first (A Vultures Egg, 1966), he is also aware, merrily for the most part, of mortality. Eros and Thanatos tap at his funny bone. Does God exist? he asks. Will the nightingale, the one right nightingale, sing? The landscapes of these poems are drawn from the Far East, New
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