Two Poems
by Michael Symmons Roberts • from The Half Healed • Jonathan Cape
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Michael Symmons RobertsMichael Symmons Roberts has published four previous collections of poetry, including Corpus, which won the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award.
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The Half Healed"Roberts's poems are intense and sensual explorations of the moment when the soul quickens to some ice-cracking life." (Adam Thorpe)
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