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…







Isn't Forever
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Words the Turtle Taught Me
States of Happiness
The Lover's Pinch
The Handle of the Door
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid