Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
PBS Spring Recommendation 2022 Antony Owen from world-renowned and lesser-known poets

from world-renowned and lesser-known poets

soundings of Lyonesse'

But with hope comes suspicion – and

insightful and immediate

and some delightful miscellanea – a hospital theatre that doubles up as an aircraft

Ephemeron by Fiona Benson <b><br>PBS Spring Recommendation 2022</b> Antony Owen from world-renowned and lesser-known poetsThe poems in Ephemeron deal with the short lived and transitory whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in 'Boarding School Tales', or parenting's day by day shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in 'Daughter Mother'. The long central section, 'Translations from the Pasiphae', gathers these themes together in a