Shadow and Bone: Poems 1981 - 1988

by Peter Levi

`Shadow and Bone' is Peter Levi's first collection of poems since `Private Ground' (1981), apart from two small books of `lamentations' - formal elegies for friends - `The Echoing Green' and `Shakespeare's Birthday'. It is a rich and diverse collection, varied in subject and verse-forms. There are sequences about railway posters and America, poems for friends and fellow scholars or poets, poems about marriage and the natural world, epigrams, a magnificent long poem on the meaning of Christmas, and meditative lyrics.

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (1984–1989) was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.