This is the third poetry collection by Peter Daniels, following Counting Eggs (Mulfran, 2012) and A Season in Eden (Gatehouse, 2016). He has also published several pamphlets including two Poetry Business prizewinners, and won the Arvon and TLS poetry competitions. His translations of Vladislav Khodasevich from Russian (Angel, 2013) were shortlisted for three awards including the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize. As a queer writer in residence at the London Metropolitan Archives he wrote the obscene Ballad of Captain Rigby (Personal Pronoun, 2013)
Synopsis In this collection, Peter Daniels looks at his life as an older gay man, his London neighbourhood, his furniture, other people’s gardens and London’s creatures. His distinctive voice ranges...