A Last Look

<p>Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman a teacher and in publishing. His Collected Poems and Translations (Carcanet Press) appeared in 2009.</p><p>‘...quietly determined and original...for more than 30 years he has pursued the question of landscape how it might be lived in and worked in recorded and celebrated.’<br />- Charles Bainbridge The Guardian.</p><p>‘Wells inherits a faith in a poem as a thing in itself that has value in a real world as well as an idyllic one’<br />- Tom Payne Times Literary Supplement.</p><p>This pamphlet contains fifteen new poems. From the coins of Greek antiquity to a group of young folk with a laptop via the Mediterranean and Exmoor the poet gives us objects lives and places of interest: occasions of insight into the partly chosen partly given worlds of his and others’ energetic existences. The poems in A Last Look are artefacts made with loving exactitude in the personal workshop of memory.</p>