Ephemeron - Fiona Benson

Ephemeron - Fiona Benson*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM* The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short lived and transitory whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in 'Boarding School Tales', or parenting's day by day shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in 'Daughter Mother'. The long central section,

Genna can only hope her soul will survive long enough to save the world

When he travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about a top-level meeting of Nazi officials

a story within a story within a story'

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But why is it that fishing - or the mere contemplation of catching a fish - can be so thrilling and so captivating

Based on original research and dozens of interviews probing the memories of principals from director John Landis and producer Bob Weiss to Aykroyd himself

After a brief affair

mystery and danger

and ultimately back to Britain

even the pictures hold secrets that must be unlocked

' - Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson

no one knew if it could be done