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“The Darkling Thrush”
“The Darkling Thrush”
An artist interprets Thomas Hardy’s famous poem, written on New Year's Eve, 1900.
Julian Peters
December 31, 2023

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[.smalltext] This poetry comic is excerpted from Poems to See By (Plough, 2020). [.smalltext]

[.smalltext] Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush,” from Poems of the Past and the Present (London and New York: Harper, 1902). [.smalltext]

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New Year
Julian Peters

Julian Peters is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Montreal, Canada, who focuses on adapting classical poems into graphic art. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in several poetry and graphic art collections.

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