Still Pondering

These poems and prose are a selection from all the eight collections I had published between 1982 and 2017. I haven’t included everything and I’ve re-drafted a great deal. I know the received wisdom is that once a poem is abandoned (to quote Pound) it should be left like that. I can’t agree. When I was going through all my past publications I could see faults and flaws that should never have got past a halfway decent editor. Hence the reworking of so many of them. I believe they’re all the better for it. I’m hoping you’ll agree.