Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of poems draws on the poet's career which has taken him to many different places - including diplomatic missions to Moscow (at the time of Vietnam); to Bucharest (where he writes about meeting the former dictator Ceausescu; and to the United Nations in New York following the Yom Kippur War. He also writes about Spain, where he lived for three years; the Middle East; and India.;Elsewhere, he enters territories of the mind, taking such themes as second sight and coincidence; the illusion necessary to life in a world of quantum particles; and the limits of scientific discovery. The collection also offers more personal themes - the anguish of hospital visits, the death of parents and poems of tenderness. Landscape is evoked in much of the work, as in the "twilit Carmarthen hills" of "Black Mountain".;This volume covers a wide range of themes and the poetry - written in a strong, clear idiom - is, and is meant to be, accessible to all.
