A poem by Gregory Leadbetter

And all the other poems it made me think of

As those who’ve been reading for a while will know, sometimes I like to think about just a single poem. A couple of days ago I recorded a podcast with Henry Oliver (of The Common Reader) — available to listen to next week, I believe — and one of the things he asked me was whether I was depressed by the state of contemporary poetry, and whether there are good poems …