No Disposals Roger Hickin

Roger Hickin

Clothbound

my copy of Rilke’s Journal
of Malte Laurids Brigge
belonged to the late
Phoebe Meikle

who bought it
at Zwemmer’s
Charing Cross Road
London in 1950

a book of horrors
in a torn jacket
as new between its boards
of cornflower blue

Roger Hickin’s Cold Hub Press publishes poetry & bilingual editions. His own works include Waiting for the Transport (2009) and The situation & Other Poems (2009). He has translated works by Rogelio Guedea (2014) and Ernesto Cardenal (2014).