Night Watch by Peter Scupham

Night Watch by Peter Scupham

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.

'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 todayThis book [Selected Poems] is easily the most accomplished I've read for some time' - Peter Forbes, The Listener

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.

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ISBN 13	9780856463198
ISBN 10	0856463191
Title	Night Watch
Author	Peter Scupham
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	1999-11-01
Number of pages	80
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