Songs for Gillian

At times reflective at times quickened by a rare and intriguing energy these poems celebrate evoke and lament the nature of romantic love. Yet this anthology finds it is not only the human person that can capture a poet's heart: the reader is invited to consider whether the fine pulse of love-with its longing for attachment its inspiration its almost numinous power-might not also be prompted by the wider domain of nature as a whole. </p><P>As the author himself explains all poetry may-in a special and extended sense - be conceived of as 'love poetry'. Accordingly this work brings into a single scope the delights of hillside and seascape-the wild and the elemental as well as the more calm and cultivated. From the north-west of Scotland to the south-west of England from the lure of the North Sea to the spell cast by Pendle's beacon these pieces declare a rich soil for what is a surprisingly accessible literary harvest.</p>