the product of a childhood with a schizophrenic mother and an anorexic father on a council estate in Croydon
his Jubilate Agno has captured the interest of modern poets including Allen Ginsberg
They respond to glory
the vision of the Grail darkens
Acoustic shadows—sound suppressed in such a way that even General Grant was deceived by one at the Battle of Iuka in the American Civil War—complicate the lives of many figures appearing in these poems
Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley Enitharmon Press the product of a childhoodThe Upper Calder Valley, in the westernmost part of Yorkshire, is a landscape of high moors, small farms and wooded hillsides, rising steeply from the market towns situated along the valley. It is the setting for many of the poems in Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls, in which the conditions of movement (of buses, trains, water and wind) are set against the conditions of stillness (the abandoned chapels and demolished mills that persist at