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Book SynopsisRead four sample poems for free - just click the Extracts tab above. Peter Carpenter's poetry is radiant with quiet surprises, important moments captured in the folds of an old document wallet, in back gardens or on winter sea-fronts, buried in the sand or hidden by the noise of a football crowd. Such moments take flight to uncover a distinctive take on both 'the here and now' and the echoes of public and private histories. After the Goldrush is thus of its time and about time, in the attentive, skilful hands of a poet truly hitting his stride. One year's the historyOf Europe, time runs barefoot on the cinder-trackAt the White City (from 'Namings')â a new voice, precise and distinct, and therefore, doubly welcome.George Szirtes In short, Peter Carpenter is a masterly portrait-painter. Matthew Jarvis, English always original and enjoyable poemsâthere's something modestly dazzling about Peter Carpenter's writing, but also something wonderfully spare and tautâ it reminds me in places
