Next

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Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan Roddick's third collection of poetry, Next, examines the past, observes the present and speculates on the future. Here is poetry that delights in warmth, humour, wit and grace, that revels in the beauty of the world, that insists on 'anticrepuscular rays' at twilight even as it's asking the niggling question: 'Tomorrow, though? ...'