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Selwyn Pritchard

Poetry

Autumn 1994

Last Word

By Selwyn Pritchard

Mum, the sadness is my brittle grief: how quickly it becomes only a concern that when news comes of my dying my children will also give only a brief thought […]

Poetry

Autumn 1994

In Aubrey’s Place

By Selwyn Pritchard

This was Aubrey’s dining table where he ate alone, wife and her mother beyond the serving hatch, soup for lunch and tea prompt as Home Service News, but if Nanna […]