Robert Wells writes poems of memory, a memory so intense it conjures places, objects and desires with their original force and freshness. The high points of a life are celebrated, and personal memories and the common memories of a culture are brought...

"The Day and Other Poems" develops and expands the explorations of Robert Wells's previous collections, demonstrating a mature poet at the height of his craft. Meditating upon erotic and rural themes, it culminates in a poetic affirmation of the unen...

Lusus is the Latin word for "diversions", an appropriate title for this volume of classical poems, rooted in physical experience and in the occluded tradition of neo-Latin verse-writing, with its erotic and rural themes. The humanist allegiance in th...

"Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other. In true communion with his surroundings, a man is dowered with a wisdom and an ecstasy that nothing else else can give (and this is perhaps what he is created for)", Georg...