Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected poems by Peter Didsbury #Iceland ’ Militello tell us

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This living poem enfolds shards of itself onto the page

we encounter artificial intelligence and robots that will ‘cuddle you to sleep’

recalling the time of the mother’s illness

She has won or been commended in numerous international competitions

Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected poems by Peter Didsbury #Iceland ’ Militello tell usA sense of adventure hardly to be paralleled in contemporary poetry' " London Magazine Published to celebrate his 80th birthday, this expanded edition of Peter Didsbury's Scenes from a Long Sleep (2003) includes a later collection, A Fire Shared (2020), as well as new, previously uncollected poems. Didsbury's staggering powers of invention, outrageous outing of convention and subversive humour are fully and flagrantly displayed in this new collected