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Tre Paesi: Three wanderings in compacted time and space, through North Kyoto, Cumbria and Lincolnshire  moving without pause and without announcement between past and present, this season and the next. It is an old man's poem, mainly about regret for what he did not live up to . The speaker is one who tends to think his thoughts through what he sees  one who might admire Caliban's knowledge of what's in front of his nose, his ability to identify with its movements.

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Mary de Rachewiltz on Ato The elegance ! The sheer stark black on white elegance - that such precision could hold so much sorrow - a wonder.... Robert Creeley on 'Hagoromo' (included in Neck of the Woods): Its scale, its pace, its articulate detailing, literally its feeling, are all to me very, very effective. It's a solid and beautiful piece of work, intimate and ageless. Timothy Harris ( PN Review ) on Neck of the Woods I am not convinced that language, or any artistic medium, is transparent in the way Ford, Pound, and Bunting seem to have hoped it was, but what surely can be transmitted by the kind of verse they advocate is, as Makin suggests, not so much the world itself as an attentiveness to it, an attentiveness that because it is reticent and resolutely unsentimental can ... be profoundly moving. It is the quality of attention in Makin's poems that makes them so good. August Kleinzahler on Neck of the Woods: Peter Makin's precision in describing natural settings and phenomena, from the coast of Lincolnshire to Kyoto, either with the breadth of distance or as if through a magnifying glass, is remarkable in itself; but in the selection, ordering and juxtaposition of subject matter Makin manages to combine the eye of the scientist, the compositional acumen of the Zen-inspired painters of the Sengoku era and the sensibility of a traditional Japanese poet of tanka and haiku.... This is very moving poetry.

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Peter Makin was born in 1946 in rural Lincolnshire, and educated at the local grammar school and at King's College, London. He has taught in Mali, England, and for many years in Japan. A scholar of modernist verse, his publications include critical books on Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting. His previous books of poetry are Ato (Pine Wave Press, 2002) and Neck of the Woods (Isobar Press, 2015).

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