The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon Faber & Faber and was educated in both

and was educated in both Canada and England

as they unfold

Some of these poems are ‘stellar gases congealing into orbits’

simultaneously exuberant and mournful

serving as Chairman of The Nobel Committee from 1988 to 2004

The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon Faber & Faber and was educated in bothMany of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a four year old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her. Familiar