Publisher's Synopsis
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
Peter Scupham's eighth collection of poems is elegiac in tone, marking the passing of the Edwardian generation and of the provincial country world from which his family came. At the centre of the book are two sequences, for his mother and his father, who died two Christmases apart. These sequences are linked by a group of sonnets on themes of death, loss, and the renewal of life - of which Scupham's verse remains an unquenchable celebration.
