Scenes from a Long Sleep : New & Collected Poems: expanded edition - Peter Didsbury

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`A sense of adventure hardly to be paralleled in contemporary poetry' -�London MagazinePublished to celebrate his 80th birthday, this expanded edition of Peter Didsbury's�Scene s from a Long Sleep�(2003) includes a later collection,�A Fire Shared�(2020), as well as new, previously uncollected poems. Didsbury's staggering powers of invention, outrageous ?outing of convention and subversive humour are fully and flagrantly displayed in this new collected edition of the poetry of this `secular mystic with the lugubrious tongue' (Independent on Sunday). All the poems from�The Butchers of Hull�(1982),�The Classical Farm�(1987),�That Old-Time Religion�(1997) and�A Natural History�(2003) are included. Show more