John Jordan: Selected Poems Hugh McMillan If you can cope with

If you can cope with literary heartbreak

by Aziz Shihab

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John Jordan: Selected Poems Hugh McMillan If you can cope with"John Jordan was conscious of the general sense of malaise that pervaded post war Europe. Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow) [Others] are poems of pity and terror, and are truly haunting reflections on the nature of suffering, the mystery at the heart of forgiveness, and the question of redemption." from the Introduction by editor Hugh McFadden "These can be very dark poems full