GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Two poems by Judi Sutherland
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Picnic on the DLR
Judi Sutherland
Friday night, when I arrive at yours
you say ‘don’t take off your coat -
we’re going out’ and pick up
a wicker basket. We step into the dark;
change at Bow Road, for the DLR,
travelling against the commuter flow.
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