Set Thy Love in Order by Stephen Romer Chatto & Windus Let Them Eat Chaos

Let Them Eat Chaos

death and resurrection of language itself

energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky

unashamed of romance

Set Thy Love in Order by Stephen Romer Chatto & Windus Let Them Eat ChaosSet Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romers four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore, O tu che m ami set thy love in order, o thou who lovest me. Romers central theme is encapsulated by these words, and his prolonged and painstaking exploration of the intermittences of the