Looking into the deep end
By: David Sweetman.
Series: Faber paperbacks
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
First sentence: Teabowl and vase, tray and ewer / stacked in the studio like shapes / fragmented from a landscape: sky / cloudy over the three-colour glazes, / a beach on the cracked oatmeal, / slow seas passing through and across / the rough biscuit---all moods of the tide.
Description: In a remarkably short time DS's talent has established his reputation among discerning readers of poetry for its assured technique and sharpness of vision and the poems in this volume go to make up an unusually mature and accomplished first collection.
DS has lived and worked abroad for a number of years, mainly in Africa, and is at present a producer with the BBC.
A Poetry Book Society Choice. £3.00 net