Here They Are by Michael Schmidt Michael Laskey remembrance and eulogy

remembrance and eulogy

draws ‘The Yobs’ in Private Eye and has worked for theTimes

—John Kinsella

unspooling long poem "Father Figures

for and about parents

Here They Are by Michael Schmidt Michael Laskey remembrance and eulogyPoetry sometimes goes its own way, abandoning storytelling and lyric and following instead the way of language, discovering for a change what it has to say more interesting than what the I intended. Fossils and ghosts live in language, etymologies and echoes. An eco system in itself. You live there in a world rich in creatures, some of them human, that talk in their own ways under the shade of trees. Michael Schmidts remarkable new collection is his