Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected poems by Peter Didsbury Shearsman Books indomitably modern and as undestructible

indomitably modern and as undestructible as the phoenix

the language of crisis gapes and sings

and domestic life

echoing in his deafness

& to Promote Recovery

Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected poems by Peter Didsbury Shearsman Books indomitably modern and as undestructibleA 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