The Sunday Poem, by CK Stead

Studying Anthony 

For Ann

Every poem makes you need to transfer to the nextCertain will probably be as witty and exactKeeping its promise to not inform anyoneBut you its secret. So to you alone,It speaks in a quiet dependably rhyming voiceThanking you for making it your alternative.

CK Stead turned 93 final Friday, October 17. He feedback of his poem, “This was my birthday current to my actual modern, Ann Thwaite who turned 93 on October 4. It’s about her late husband Anthony Thwaite, poet, famous editor (BBC, the Listener, the New Statesman) and literary executor of Philip Larkin, who died in 2021.  Ann is a famous biographer (AA Milne, Edmund Gosse, Frances Hodgson Burnett) at present revising her biography of Emily Tennyson for a brand new version within the US.“