Description
This major selection from Philip Salom’s seven previous books was published in 1998. It includes a sizeable collection of new and previously unpublished poems about animals, odd characters, acupuncturists, follies and visitants. The collection shows his great range and growth in stature from the physicality of the early rural poems, to the internationally acclaimed Sky Poems, and, most recently, the inventiveness and passionate affirmations of love in The Rome Air Naked. Finally, among his new poems, is the long-awaited inclusion of the moving ‘Elegy for My Father’, winner of the 1996 Newcastle Poetry Prize…”