Invitation to View by Peter Scupham Michael Schmidt he refuses to romanticise rural

he refuses to romanticise rural Ireland

This beautifully illustrated collection brings together

departure - the ghost lands - the burning - mirror - the fading

and what they can give us today

Invitation to View by Peter Scupham Michael Schmidt he refuses to romanticise ruralThe poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scuphams hugely welcome new book, which he was dissuaded from calling Curtain Call, often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations. Some respond to fragments of the past, personal and historical, which haunt the present. Yeats wrote in Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, Man is in love, and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say? Vanishing is as chancy a business as the grin on the