40 C Lifestyle / The Guardian
The British poets second collection is an exacting examination of the past, the present and an uncertain future Poetry is a form of scrutiny, an inquiry that, when it succeeds, advances further than it is possible to go in prose. Rowland Bagnall s attractively questing second collection is an investigation of consciousness. Like Virginia Woolf, he records moments of being although, unlike her, his moments are likely to be guarded and seldom ecstatic and to involve openly philosophical reckoning.
Planned works by Network Rail will force more people onto the roads to join the bank holiday getaway, with rail strikes to follow the week after Bank holiday getaway traffic jams will signal the start of a bumpy 10 days on Britains roads and railways, as a rainy early May is peppered with engineering works and train drivers strikes. Motoring organisations were expecting late Friday afternoon to bring the longest delays on roads, particularly those heading to the south-west from London. Continue