Edward James Hughes OM OBE FRSL was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:Something else is aliveBeside the clock’s lonelinessAnd this blank page where my fingers move. Through the window I see no star:Something more nearThough deeper within darknessIs entering the loneliness: Cold...