6 February, 2012

“I Am Greatly Changed” by Richard Price, is this week’s poem of the week. It is a complex but poignant reinvention of Pip and Estella’s final meeting in Great Expectations.

In the accompanying review of A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens, Carol Rumens writes of the collection:

‘Skilfully organised in its themes and variations, the anthology is more than commentary, more than celebration. Most of the poems feel emotionally compelled rather than commissioned, suggesting Dickens, the “mutual friend”, may be an oddly liberating “mutual muse”.’