Description
Stokes, Martin. The First Death of Venice. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1987. First Edition. Card Wrappers. Fine. 80pp. Stokes has inscribed the title page for Anthony Thwaite using his full signature. Also laid in is a short signed letter mentioning the Arvon course which Thwaite had taught him during which they had worked together on two of the poems eventually published in this collection. One of which appears to be Elegy for my Sister which is preceded by 4 lines from a Thwaite poem.








Counting Backwards
This Is Yarrow
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
The Lover's Pinch
New & Selected Potatoes
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
States of Happiness
I Don't Want This Poem to End: Final Poems and Prose
Insistence
Negative Space
Hansel and Gretel
Spiritlands
Gold from the Stone