Veii and other poems by Robert Wells Robert MacFarlane expressing solidarity with a nation’s

expressing solidarity with a nation’s wound

and what he finds there

violence and disarray – spheres of dystopia and decimation – to grief

through reflections on memory and artifice

Veii and other poems by Robert Wells Robert MacFarlane expressing solidarity with a nation’sThe title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the poet discovered an incised potsherd: 'Was that the day when antiquity The place where all is over and done Took ineluctable hold of me?' The poems return to familiar places and themes from a later 'now', a revised perspective: memories are real, perhaps