Michael Laskey ‘astonished’ to receive King’s Gold Medal for Poetry

“Reading through [Laskey’s] Collected Poems, I was struck by how deceptively simple the poems are: apparently effortless, domestic, calm in voice and clear in their descriptions and observations — yet so often, in fact almost always, deeply moving, with last lines that cause an involuntary intake of breath, a wobble of the heart, or shiver of the spine.”

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