A World Where News Travelled Slowly by Lavinia Greenlaw (collection entitled A World Where News Travelled Slowly, 1997) is poem that is very full in meaning, even though the author mainly concentrates on one subject, namely communication. The poem is about the evolution of communication in our world, starting from the times where no electronics existed, where everything, including sending mail, was done physically by man and horse. The poem then moves onto more developed communication, yet still ancient for the current day; this is the time of the telegraphs and the semaphore during the late 1700s. The last stanza in the poem is the one we living in the present day can most closely relate to. This then is the time of the electronically lead systems, such as the Internet. The author very effectively creates a `time-line effect' to the poem, which is something that is not generally...