In Constant Motion

Geoffrey Heptonstall

This collection of essays investigates the poetic form, the life of poets, familiar streets and places of learning. A journey within the mind, with language and within the world at a moment of transformation. You can expect to meet T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sally Purcell, John Wain, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop and Amanda Gorman along the way...

The Will To Change

Geoffrey Heptonstall

The world is in a process of transformation whenever a poet’s fingers inscribe a word...

Each Delicacy And Shade

Geoffrey Heptonstall

Places of learning attract poets, both as a source of income and as an environment sympathetic to literary activity...

Coming And Going

Geoffrey Heptonstall

One poet often evokes consideration of another poet...