Even After All These Years

Notes about Michael Prior's poem "Swan Dive"

The poem, the titular selection of a chapbook published by Frog Hollow, features Ophelia, the potential wife of Hamlet. In the poem’s second couplet, the speaker dedicates the following lines to those of us who practise our Ophelia. The poem already prefaced with an epigraph from a conversation between her and Hamlet, where she delivers the line, I was …