This poetry collection by Peter Scupham bridges the local and universal, exploring themes of memory and history through personal experiences. Masterful in both lyrical and memorializing sequences, his voice is unique—observant, reflective, and often humorous. He excels as a love poet, elegist, and parodist.
Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age shaped by the Suez crisis and the Cold War.
The poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations.