Book description
The erotic and the sexual are richly represented in this new
collection, whose subjects of celebration range from the lemons in
Robert Graves' garden to a blood-drinking Tibetan deity. At its heart
are a group of passionate love poems, and a sequence set in an East
London strip club, treated with the imaginative insight and verbal
skill that led R. V. Bailey, reviewing Lindop's Selected Poems, to
write that, 'All the tricks in the poet's bag work for him as a
master, so unobtrusively that it is only at the second or third
reading that you become aware that the thought and feeling...are
supported by an amazingly intricate web of sound.' This new collection
will enhance Lindop's reputation for originality as well as for
mastery of poetic tradition. As Kathleen Raine wrote, 'Grevel Lindop
celebrates a cosmic harmony that upholds the greatest and the least
parts of the universe... His perspectives open on the stories within
stories, where what is "real" and what is illusory are woven
together. Grevel Lindop does not see the world about him as in need of
"improving", for he sees all with the eye of love.'
'a fascinating read.' - William Oxley, Stride Magazine Grevel
Lindop was born in Liverpool and now lives in Manchester, where he was
formerly a Professor of English at the Victoria University. His books
include A Literary Guide to the Lake District; The Opium Eater: A Life
of Thomas De Quincey; and editions of Chatterton, De Quincey and Robert
Graves's the White Goddess. He has published six volumes of poems, most
recently Playing With Fire (Carcanet, 2006).
