MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE: LIFE, DEATH AND THE NHS BY MICHAEL ROSEN Simon Smith Vona Groarke’s Selected Poems was

Vona Groarke’s Selected Poems was praised as a ‘collection of almost sublime purity’ (Dublin Review of Books)

In one poem the speaker “forgets the Urdu / word for loneliness

living and dead

Boundaries are blurred: an eagle drinks tea with a mother

MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE: LIFE, DEATH AND THE NHS BY MICHAEL ROSEN Simon Smith Vona Groarke’s Selected Poems wasA national treasure's journey to the brink and back. 'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50: 50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as the nation teetered on the edge of a global pandemic. What followed was months on the wards: six weeks in an induced coma, and many more weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved Michael's life, and then got him back