First Line: NOW WHEN KING OFFA WAS ALIVE AND DEAD, THEY WERE Last Line: DRIPPED RED IN THE ARENA OF ITS UPROOTING Subject(s): OFFA (D. 796), KING OF MERCIA;
Poem Sources:
ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY. TUMA, KEITH (ED.) (2001)
THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE. KEEGAN, PAUL (ED.) (2001)
NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS, 1952-1992. HILL, GEOFFREY (1994)
