Michael Symmons Roberts tweet poetry

Thinking about maps and skin and why we remember poems...and I remembered this one.

If you are not familiar with British poet Michael Symmons Roberts' poetry, Corpus published in 2004 by Cape Poetry is a good place to start. It won the Whitbread Poetry Award amongst others that year.

This is tweet is from his poem Pelt, a poem appealing to taxidermists and others. MSR has been described as "a religious poet for a secular age".

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I found the world’s pelt nailed to the picturerail of a boxroom in a cheap hotel So that’s why rivers dry to scabs the earth’s an open wound

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Read MSR's full poem here:

http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2005-shortlist/michael-symmons-roberts/

You can listen to MSR read Pelt here: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=3484