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‘She Walks in Beauty’
Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems
Life goes on its desultory way
our wars and stories
This epigrammatic sequence is based on the ekphrastic graffiti-poems inscribed between the 8th and 10th centuries at a royal pleasure palace and fortress in Sri Lanka
Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes David Kinloch ‘She Walks in Beauty’The thirteenth century Tuscan poet Guido Cavalcanti helped to create a new poetry that belonged to the city rather than the court, and through his use of Tuscan vernacular gave an extraordinary intensity and craft to his explorations of the social and psychological dimensions of love. Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcantis groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions. Following in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel
