Overview
This long poem in 10-line stanzas is named after a small limestone village in the north Staffordshire Peak District. It is a poem about passage, transformation, and the resources of the imagination in quest of a sense of justice. Divided into five sections, the poem's first four sections are short poetical meditations on place and landscape, memory, and imagination in a humanized enclosure. The much longer fifth section brushes with philosophical, political, and other human discourses.
Reviews
“One of Britain’s major, if insufficiently recognized, poets.” —John Kinsella, The Observer
Author Biography
Peter Riley is a bookseller and a former English teacher at the University of Odense.