Not a poet to everyone's taste, I know, but can anyone help? One of my
students has just claimed in an essay that 'The Explosion' is about miners
killed in the Coventry air-raid. This sounds amazing to me - the poem seems
so obviously about an underground explosion killing only a few people, and
I'd never heard of a mining industry in the Coventry area. (I've checked on
the Net, and it seems the latter does exist.) She cites a couple of books
(the Motion biography is one), from one of which she presumably got her
claim, and I'm trying to get them from the university library, but in the
meantime has anyone got an opinion on the matter?
Best wishes
Matthew
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