Another Time by W.H. Auden Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 'For Griffiths

'For Griffiths

Vidyan Ravinthiran

Her poems hold their subjects in an unflinching grip

a series of connected images

under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns

Another Time by W.H. Auden Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 'For GriffithsAnother Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the intellectual climate of the times, and they show greater variety of tone and technique than in any previous book of Auden's. Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in