This volume brings together Peter Levi’s early books, pamphlets and other uncollected poems written over a period of twenty years to 1975. His subsequent books of poetry are Five Ages (1978), Private Ground (1981), The Echoing Green (1983), The Lamentation of the Dead (1984), The Noise Made by Poems (1984), Shakespeare’s Birthday (1985), Goodbye to the Art of Poetry (1989), Shadow and Bone (1989), The Rags of Time (1994), Reed Music (1997) and Viriditas (2001).