The Haw Lantern. London: Faber & Faber, 1987. Paperback Edition, Fourth Issue. Pp, 51. A fine bright copy.

Signed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

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.