Fleur Adcock

Glass Wings

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    ups and downs, through half a century,
    could be described as aeronautical:
    though you’re the qualified pilot, I’m the one
    who, far too often, flew away from you.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    It seems too late for an apology;
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    how can you relate to a creature that
    doesn’t even have a proper plural?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    better to pretend you haven’t noticed.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    She emigrated to Britain in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    In 1977-78 she was writer-in-residence at Charlotte Mason College of Education, Ambleside
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    in 1979-81, living in Newcastle, becoming a freelance writer after her return to London. She received an OBE in 1996, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000).
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    as well as her translations of medieval Latin lyrics,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    . She was Northern Arts Literary Fellow
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    The vicar dutifully wrote it up.
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