AND (Poems 1920-2017) by Michael Mackmin Billy Collins marks a startling new talent

marks a startling new talent

It is occupied

modernist sensibility allied with an ancient Chinese

in the poet’s eyes

Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder

AND (Poems 1920-2017) by Michael Mackmin Billy Collins marks a startling new talentMichael Mackmin has been editor of The Rialto poetry magazine since it began in 1984. His first full collection, The Play of Rainbow, was issued by Cape Goliard in 1970. Nearly half a century later, here is his second. And is a book that blends delight and loss, and does so with dramatically varied tone and method. The central preoccupation is that age old, impossible, painful, joyous paradox love. Pax The skin, in reverie, intensely white, the hips