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Adam Aitken: a forensic poet with obsessive resolve

The first poem of Adam Aitken’s new collection Revenants is a curiosity that demands close attention:

Xmas, Singapore 1957

Much better than that

Melbourne day

in ’56 – so my father wrote

in blue fountain pen

on airline parchment

to his mother Jean.

Apero-time then

English goose + trimmings,

a bottle of BOAC Bordeaux,

2 anti-acid for dess