Weemoed by Tim Dooley PBS Recommendation Winter 2017 Nine Arches Press winner of the Forward Prize

winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

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Weemoed by Tim Dooley <b> PBS Recommendation Winter 2017 </b> Nine Arches Press winner of the Forward PrizeThe Dutch word for melancholy, 'Weemoed', could be read according to Vincent Van Gogh, as a combination of sadness and courage. In his first collection of completely new work since 2008's Keeping Time, Dooley considers the persistence of the past in the present with poems that are witty, elegiac and intelligent. While it remembers the dead throughout, Weemoed is a collection brimming with life, whether updating Arthurian legend, exploring the British