Overview
Peter Dale combines intimacy of address and a personal colloquial idiom with remarkable skill in formal verse. He is interested in bringing his subjects – love, relationships, memory, all kinds of daily exchange – directly to the reader, without fuss and with thoughtful craft and conviction. The precision of his writing matches its intensity of feeling. Diffractions begins with new poems and ends with a collection of lively and entertaining epigrams. Between these, his published collections appear in chronological sequence. The whole assembles 50 years of elegant, incisive and moving work by a leading British poet of rare skill. Author Biography
Peter Dale worked as a secondary school teacher until his retirement. He is renowned for his translations from French (Corbière, Laforgue, Valéry and Villon) and Italian (a complete terza rima version of Dante's Divine Comedy). He now lives in Cardiff.