Poem of the week: Silence by Lotte Kramer

The quiet pastoral of a river scene carries strong undercurrents of traumatic historical memory

A footnote to this week's poem by Lotte Kramer (published in The Rialto, No. 80, Spring-Summer 2014) tells us that the poet "is a survivor of that small exodus of children organised by the kindertransport movement in the 1930s".

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