Night Watch - Softcover

Scupham, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856463191 ISBN 13: 9780856463198

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Peter Scupham was born in Liverpool in 1933. Since 1972 he published over ten collections of poetry. With John Mole he founded The Mandeville Press and ran Mermaid Books, a second-hand book business in Norfolk. He received a Cholmondely Award in 1996 and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His 2022 Collected Poems was followed by Borrowed Landscapes in 2011. His final collection, Invitation to View, is published by Carcanet in July 2022. He passed away in June 2022 at the age of 88.

Edition details

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856463191
• ISBN 13: 9780856463198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80