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 funf...

Eavan Boland has praised Grevel Lindop's "lyric voice that handles images well, that distinguishes – as few poets do – the erotic from the sexual, that moves language in and out of metaphor with skill and grace". The erotic and the sexual are richly...

"Transparently accomplished", as John Kerrigan has written: "his work displays the kind of internal 'itinerary' which (in Mandelstam's language) is the mark of achieved poetry". This book selects the best work from thirty years of that itinerary, a...