A comprehensive collection of meticulously observed and powerfully rendered poems from R.F. Langley, a master of English modernism.This definitive volume brings together R.F. Langley's acclaimed collections, Collected Poems and The Face of It, alongside celebrated uncollected late works, including the Forward Prize-winning 'To a Nightingale'. Langley's poetry offers a unique lens on the natural world, exploring themes of memory, contemplation, and...

Visual art, French film, Shakespeare, natural history, and weather are all put under a unique microscope in this selection of poems. Originally based upon a series of notebook observations, the poems—presented in a late modernist style—range in subject from Palladian architecture to Rauschenberg's pop art, from Bresson's cinematography to Bottom's dream. Demonstrating a nostalgic affection for rural English and European landscapes, these poems uncover surprise and truth in the most ordinar...