Kit Wright’s poem ‘From Cheshire’ featured as Poem of the Week

The poem ‘From Cheshire’ by Kit Wright is featured as the Poem of the Week. Taken from the 1983 publication ‘Bump-Starting the Hearse’ by Hutchinson, the work explores themes of love, vulnerability, and desperation.

The poem depicts a narrator’s anxiety regarding a loved one driving over the Runcorn Bridge in a deteriorating vehicle. The verses utilize a somnolent metre and labored rhymes to convey a sense of terminal decline and longing, set against a cold, remote landscape of snow and dark roads.