FOR DAVE CUNLIFFE
(4 January 1941-16 April 2021)
and Dave said, sometimes
on evenings such as this
you end up reading your poems
in the back-room of a pub
to four drunks and a dog
but
every human mind
contains a thousand spirits
so even though it seems
you’re reading to few
you have an audience
of multitudes…
Andrew Darlington
Photo from the Dave Cunliffe Archive
somehow I missed that Dave Cunliffe had died though I knew he was close
Comment by jeff cloves on 8 January, 2022 at 11:01 amwe hardly met during life but corresponded for years
I admired and respected him
and Andrew Darlington’s words are
are deserved and painfully accurate
well said