The Duke Tony Conran with a tragic sense of

with a tragic sense of the talent that was lost through his untimely death

all loom large in poems where sound comes first

Poets I Go Back To  with our New Poets' Prize Winners and Cliff Yates explores the poetry of Ian McMillan in The Collection

was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008

Thalbot has fallen from comfort and security onto the streets

The Duke Tony Conran with a tragic sense ofOutside Vallorgana, a tiny, isolated village high in the foothills of the Dolomites, the Duke lives in the villa of his aristocratic ancestors. The last in the centuries old line of the Cimamontes, he spends his days on his land and absorbed in the family archive, tolerated, if gently ridiculed by the villagers who are his neighbours. When he finds out that the village big man is taking timber from his land, he has a decision to make. Will he stay in