There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Pamphlets ―Linda Black

―Linda Black

But at the heart of the collection is a deeper preoccupation

that most emphatic of silences

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There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Pamphlets ―Linda BlackAidan Semmenss fifth collection of poems moves from the range of the world to the deeply personal, always placing the detail in historical context. Employing a variety of poetic techniques, he moves from the moral ambiguities of empire to the run in to Brexit; from a reworking, forty years on, of the poem for which he was awarded the Cambridge University Chancellors Medal, to the breakdown of language suffered by his mother after an ultimately fatal