Description
Peter Bennet reports from the border between plausible narrative and the wilder territories of the imagination. This collection brings together his best work of the past fifteen years, including poems from his T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collection, The Glass Swarm, and his four major sequences, The Long Pack, Jigger Nods, Folly Wood and Bobby Bendick’s Ride. As Andrew Motion put it, these poems establish the criteria by which they must be judged…





Swansea Automatic
Spiritlands
Being Alive
The Lover's Pinch
Strong in the Rain
Signs Like This
Words the Turtle Taught Me