A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Loretta Collins Klobah ’ In these lines an

’ In these lines an ancestral trauma pours from the heart of the unwelcome across a warzone

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and the real mischief that underwrites the trick

and descriptions of the documents themselves

PBS Recommended Translation - Summer 2016

A Bluebottle in Late October by John Wheway Loretta Collins Klobah ’ In these lines anJohn Wheways first full collection places its trust exactly where it should be: in the poetic present tense where every gnomic detail is magnified, every commonplace brought to its own species of transfiguration. At a time when the lyric is so much in need, he rejuvenates it in its most pellucid and most effortless form; the couplet is reshaped and crystallised, and comes to life. A Bluebottle in Late October is a memorable sequence of poems. Tim