Rock, Paper, Scissors by Richard Osmond George Herbert and it begins and ends

and it begins and ends at the boundaries of the Roman territory

the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first half’s here-and-now

‘Like a bird picking over / the September lawn

In recent years he has been an active member in the Manchester Buddhist Centre poetry group

Osmond has written a book of compelling importance

Rock, Paper, Scissors by Richard Osmond George Herbert and it begins and endsRichard Osmond won the the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses. His second, Rock Paper Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poets direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017. Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex, fragmentary nature of traumatic experience. Interleaved with these are translated