Time Begins to Hurt by Pippa Little Wendy Cope and Augustan grace’

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as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved

powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments

These poems are a hymn to being alive in the twenty-first century - the frailties and vigour of life in all its dazzling form

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Time Begins to Hurt by Pippa Little Wendy Cope and Augustan grace’"The world of Little's poems is a dark one, for sure, where "the harm the damage" we humans inflict on the environment, on one another is rendered unflinchingly. Her poems about family, for instance, make it clear that 'social distancing' is not just a phenomenon of the past two years. Love is present too, often inextricably bound up with the pain it can cause ("I keep loving you like an old bruise still tender") but expressed in such rich and