Cherubims: Poems, by Edward Clarke

Review by Jonathan Wooding

Cover of 'Cherubims: Poems' | Photo: By Edward Clarke

If you’ve ever sighed with relief when the children leave Meeting and go their own fidgety, smirking way, then shame on us all. Take a look at what we’re missing. Edward Clarke is happy running the Children’s Meeting, even when the kids are having tantrums, or interrupting his best efforts to compose a new poem. Here he is diligently composing in the early hours of the morning – what discipline!

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