Today’s Poem: The Changelings

Adam Roberts on Kipling’s war poem after the death of his son

Norman Wilkinson’s Dazzle Ships: A Convoy, 1918 (Royal Museums Greenwich)

Adam Roberts is a genius, a mad and wonderful polymath, whom we at

Poems Ancient and Modern

follow in astonishment and awe. (You should too: He blogs here.) An academic at Royal Holloway, University of London, he’s the author of over twenty novels, a critic of music and post-Renaissance Latin poetry, and …