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Empty Nest: Poems for Families, edited by Carol Ann Duffy review – the agony of absence


Empty Nest: Poems for Families, edited by Carol Ann Duffy review – the agony of absence
Fathers, mothers and grownup children reflect on leaving home and the ‘dance between closeness and distance’ in an outstanding anthology
Carol Ann Duffy: her house ‘pines’ when her daughter is away. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images
Carol Ann Duffy: her house ‘pines’ when her daughter is away. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images
Tue 16 Mar 2021 05.00 EDT
This is not, as is the usual rule of this column, a collection but an outstanding anthology in which fathers, mothers and grownup children speak of themselves and, sometimes, to one another. A new form of homesickness is identified in which it is home itself that sickens. In the poem from which the anthology gets its title, Carol Ann Duffy suggests that her house “pines” when her daughter is away. Gabriel Griffin in Alone describes his home’s echoing u ....

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2020: Pandemic, natural disaster and upheaval


2020: Pandemic, natural disaster and upheaval
 
December 24, 2020
Megan Whitermore celebrates graduation from the back of a truck on Main Street during Tuesday s parade. The ceremony was altered due to COVID-19 restrictions.
As I sat down to write the 2020 Year in Review, I thought: I don t want to relive this year, nor should anyone else. But tradition dictates an annual recap, which if left unwritten, would end my positive relationship with CVN bookkeeper Jane Pascoe. Plus, the newspaper is a weekly black hole of white space that must be filled. So here it goes:
A January 2020 blizzard that brought 50 inches of snow in two days prompted then-borough manager Debra Schnabel to declare a public safety emergency. She told the CVN she hoped the public would hunker down while public works crews cleared roads. The term would soon reappear in a different context two months after the severe weather event that, in hindsight, seems miniscule. ....

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