Description
This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences.
Each poem has an occasion: some of the occasions are personal meetings, conversations, which unlock shared scenes and themes; some are historical in origin, their past often one of early Christian faith or religious conflict. The poems abound in art, in specific lived detail, particulars of landscape, and in a harsh weather which is not unlike time itself in its effect on the living and ageing imagination. Each poem requires a different metre, a different pace; each form is carefully attuned to its occasion.
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Selected Poetry 
Milk and Honey 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
The Tamarit Poems 
Swansea Automatic 
On the Edge 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes 
Spiritlands 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two