Invitation to View Peter Scupham

ISBN 9781800172104

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 88pp

TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry

Sales Points

• A new collection from the co-founder of The Mandeville Press and the legendary second-hand book business Mermaid Books in Norfolk

• Scupham is writing at age 88 with all his poetic energy and trademark wit

• This collection considers possible visitors to the poet’s 400 year-old house long after he and his partner have left it behind

• Delights in the efforts these visitors make to bring the house and garden alive, from poetry picnics to productions of Shakespeare

• Poems respond to fragments of the past, personal and historical, which haunt the present

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)

Peter Scupham was born in Liverpool in 1933. Since 1972 he published over ten collections of poetry. With John Mole he founded The Mandeville Press and ran Mermaid Books, a second-hand book business in Norfolk. He received a Cholmondely Award in 1996 and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His 2022 Collected Poems was followed by Borrowed Landscapes in 2011. His final collection, Invitation to View, is published by Carcanet in July 2022. He passed away in June 2022 at the age of 88.

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Also Available

9781847770806

Borrowed Landscapes

Peter Scupham

August 2011

£9.95