Peter Scupham's eleventh collection brings his customary elegance and skill to bear on themes as diverse as the "Battle of Arras", "Kilvert's Diary", and an unexpected encounter with his parents on holiday from the underworld. These parables and truthful fictions explore meeting points and intersections between 'is' and 'was', or 'is' and 'might be'. The centre of the book is a substantial sequence, "The Northern Line", where the poet's double, in his old guise as a National Serviceman, takes a journey by ghost train through the 1950s, that hinge of the century when the trouble of great wars gave way to the troubles of a patchwork peace.

About the Author
Peter Scupham was born in 1933. With John Mole he founded The Mandeville Press and now lectures, writes, and runs Mermaid Books, a second-hand book business in Norfolk. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Reviews
'If a born poet is someone who continually builds and reworks his life's experience as metaphor, Peter Scupham is surely such a poet' - Anne Stevenson, Poetry Review'Peter Scupham is one of the most unjustly underrated poets in England today. This book [Selected Poems] is easily the most accomplished I've read for some time' - Peter Forbes, The Listener



Book Information
ISBN 9780856463198
Author Peter Scupham
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 110g