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Torch Song

by Lucy Tunstall

Anoint your dead
poems.

Put them in a little boat called
She Who Must Be Obeyed –
our little joke.

Invite the Molotovs for cocktails on deck.
Tell them to wear all their gold.

Read Lucy Tunstall’s ‘Behind the poem’ article

About this poem

This poem was published in The Poetry Review, spring issue, 2017.

"I wrote ‘Torch Song’ after managing no poems at all in the three years following my first collection...." Lucy Tunstall goes 'Behind the Poem' for our regular online feature.

Lucy Tunstall

Lucy Tunstall’s first collection is The Republic of the Husband (Carcanet, 2014).
Supported by Arts Council England

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