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Selected Poems

Peter Scupham

Peter Scupham - Selected Poems
Imprint: OxfordPoets
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Paperback (113 pages)
(Pub. Sep 1999)
9780192827623
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  • This selection, made by Peter Scupham himself, brings together work from his eight individual collections, from his first book, The Snowing Globe in 1972 to his latest, Watching the Perseids in 1990
    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 ... read more
    Praise for Peter Scupham 'A collection in which perception often trembles on the edge of the liminal.' 

    Carol Rumens, the Guardian where 'Reflection' was Poem of the Week

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