The Daily Poem: What the Removal of the Wall Left

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John Hartley Williams teaches at the Free University of Berlin. His second book Bright River Yonder (Bloodaxe, 1987) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Its centrepiece, the long poem Ephraim Destiny's Perfectly Utter Darkness, won first prize in the Arvon poetry competition. His other collections include Cornerless People (Bloodaxe, 1990). This poem appears in Double (Bloodaxe, pounds 6.95).