My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Michele Hutchison profound collection

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the same “warmth and a reassurance … in the correspondence itself

’ – Pete Townshend

My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Michele Hutchison profound collectionIn 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet's