Second Eel

John Taylor the King's Water Poet | N.J.R. Pattison

This section proved unexpectedly difficult. Through that difficulty I trust that the poem has taught me how it wants to be written and what it will cost me to make it. Much of this difficulty came from putting too much duress of quotation and allusion on the textual process for the poem to bear, despite setting out deliberately to make sure that didn’t …