The Haw Lantern. London: Faber & Faber, 1987. First Edition. Pp, 51. Red cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

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.