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The old days
Days lengthen
the movement of air and the interplay of light and darkness
and scores of others better known in their homeland than in America
Lex Runciman has lived most of his life in Oregon's Willamette Valley
Merman Catherine Phil MacCarthy The old daysMerman, the fourth poetry collection by Jean OBrien, takes its title from the winning entry of the 2010 11 Arvon International Poetry Award, judged by Carol Ann Duffy. From this lively and imaginative opening, the poems are always alert to the comic and the everyday, even when broaching the harder subjects of life, engaging with the prospects of illness and death with characteristic grace and candour. A wonderful poem. Carol Ann Duffy on Merman Jean