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The Pleasures of Peace
Paperback
General PoetryGreat BritainJapan
ISBN13: 9784907359348
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 26 2021
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Pleasures of Peace gathers recent poems by Paul Rossiter, mostly written on the move
in 2018-19, and concerned with such matters as Pythagoras, The Tempest, Westray and
Papa Westray, a Neolithic house, biscuits and oatcakes, seabirds in flight, a hot spring in
Akita, big seas and snow rollers, jazz in Tokyo, elegiac memory, Kamakura in February,
the other side of the world, Isamu Noguchi, a feat of archery at the Battle of Yashima
(1185), Issa's words for rain, the late Cantos of Ezra Pound, the London Blitz, rosebay
willow herb, Tomas Tranströmer, the Plymouth Blitz, the Rame Peninsula in eastern
Cornwall, Richard Carew of Antony, incidents in Brexitland, Barbara Hepworth's garden,
the Isles of Scilly, an approach to Penzance by sea in rain, and the onset of autumn.
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