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Given Gillian Clarke's been the National Poet of Wales, there's a lot of Wales in her poems, which is all to the good.
She also has a couple of poems about the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, which I hadn't heard of before. It's another in the catalogue of Nazi atrocities: the whole population of a French village murdered in reprisal for Resistance activity. 643 dead, including 247 women and 205 children burnt to death in a church. Bastards.