The Penny Dropping Spring26 what do we see

what do we see

somebody has broken into Kirrin Cottage

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empathetic portraits that reveal Smith’s self-assurance

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The Penny Dropping Spring26 what do we seeThe Penny Dropping offers an account of a cherished relationship from first meeting to eventual break up. Distance gives the writer a retrospective clarity from which she does not flinch despite its challenges (Look at me, laments the speaker in Pretty Woman, stepping back into the dress, pulling up the side zip, smoothing it down, as though thats all it took). But ultimately poems such as No Point Now undo their own argument that the penny has