Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected poems by Peter Didsbury Shearsman Books & to Promote Recovery

& to Promote Recovery

Edwina Atlee

These islands in the sound are what’s left: shaped

echoing in his deafness

Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected poems by Peter Didsbury Shearsman Books & to Promote RecoveryA sense of adventure hardly to be paralleled in contemporary poetry' " London Magazine Published to celebrate his 80th birthday, this expanded edition of Peter Didsbury's Scenes from a Long Sleep (2003) includes a later collection, A Fire Shared (2020), as well as new, previously uncollected poems. Didsbury's staggering powers of invention, outrageous outing of convention and subversive humour are fully and flagrantly displayed in this new collected