Avebury

<p>“I’m not a prophet but I believe you have written a great poem…” —Octavio Paz (from a personal letter)</p><p>“The note on the back cover of the first edition of <em>Avebury</em> describes the book as ‘a series of lyrical meditations in which man’s roots are rediscovered in the modes of perception of earlier cultures’. This is true; but it is also true to say that ‘love defeating death’ is a universal theme.” —Jeremy Hooker </p><p>“<em>Avebury</em> freely moves through time from pre-textual history to descriptions of art and civilisation in the same way that Olson’s <em>Maximus Poems</em> and all of Eliot’s poems in <em>Four Quartets</em> envision history as an event that is taking place now and always past and present simultaneously existing.” —Neli Moody</p><p>“It was a welcome surprise to find Avebury where I have walked among the stones so often placed back meaningfully on the spiritual map.” —Charles Tomlinson</p>