The Haw Lantern. London: Faber & Faber, 1987. First Paperback Edition. Pp, 51. Neat ownership name to front free endpaper. A very good copy in wrapper covers.

Signed and dated by the Author on title-page, & with quotation from ‘A Peacock’s Feather.’

Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in particular a sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet’s mother, are joined in the Haw Lantern by meditations on the conscience of the writer & exercises in an allegorical vein.