Slow Puncture

<p><strong>Miles Burrows</strong> studied at Charterhouse and Wadham College Oxford. He read Russian in National Service, then Classics and Medicine. He worked as travel and fiction reviewer at the <em>New Statesman</em> and his poems appeared on radio and television. His first collection, <em>A Vultures Egg</em>, was published by Cape and reviewed by John Carey. His work has been anthologised in <em>British Poetry since 1945</em> (Penguin: ed. Lucie-Smith) and in <em>Best Poems of the Year 2012</em> (Forward). He is a regular contributor to <em>TLS</em>, <em>Poetry Review</em>, and <em>PN Revie</em>w. He has worked as a doctor in New Guinea, Thailand, and Haverhill. He lives in Cambridge.</p><br>