Luna Park

Lindop Grevel

Drawing on themes of magic, dreams and the nocturnal, Grevel Lindop's new collection of poems ranges in subject from the hidden histories of words to the folklore of yew trees, and in place from a haunted English library to a derelict Australian funfair and the streets of Mexico City. Including "Shugborough Eclogues", a twenty-first century take on the country-house pastoral, and sequences on the darker and brighter aspects of love, "Luna Park" deploys an original viewpoint as well as a wide range of traditional and modernist skills in verse. The book ends with "Hurricane Music", Lindop's prose memoir of a visit to New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.

About the Author

Grevel Lindop was born in Liverpool and now lives in Manchester, where he was formerly a Professor of English at the Victoria University. His books include "A Literary Guide to the Lake District"; "The Opium Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey" and editions of Chatterton, De Quincey and Robert Graves's "The White Goddess". He has published six volumes of poems, including "Playing With Fire" (Carcanet, 2006) and "Luna Park" (2015).

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