`Reed Music' is Peter Levi's first collection of completely new work since `Shadow and Bone' (1989). In these exhilarating poems he combines a watercolourist's gift for the spontaneous evocation of a scene with a very different gift for formal elegy. In addition to individual poems about friends, the English landscape, the Welsh borders and human mortality, there are four substantial sequences including `Poem for the Time of Day', a beautiful meditation as dusk falls at Gillan Creek in Cornwall.
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