Winter light is a short selection of poems written over forty years, introducing us to a distinctive voice:

White light pierces / head on, dazzles, / scours the eye, / creating darkness

Brecon Beacons
October
Fragment
Blythburgh
View from a helicopter
Tulips
The June drop
Nausicäa
Centres
Meeting
Barnes Bridge
Winter light, Hampstead Heath
Brief für einen Tag ohne Briefe
András Schiff plays the fugue from Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata
23 February 1821
A painting by Berthe Morisot
When I grow up

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