The Pleasures of Peace

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The Pleasures of Peace gathers recent poems by Paul Rossiter, mostly written on the move

in 2018-19, and concerned with such matters as Pythagoras, The Tempest, Westray and

Papa Westray, a Neolithic house, biscuits and oatcakes, seabirds in flight, a hot spring in

Akita, big seas and snow rollers, jazz in Tokyo, elegiac memory, Kamakura in February,

the other side of the world, Isamu Noguchi, a feat of archery at the Battle of Yashima

(1185), Issa’s words for rain, the late Cantos of Ezra Pound, the London Blitz, rosebay

willow herb, Tomas Transtroemer, the Plymouth Blitz, the Rame Peninsula in eastern

Cornwall, Richard Carew of Antony, incidents in Brexitland, Barbara Hepworth’s garden,

the Isles of Scilly, an approach to Penzance by sea in rain, and the onset of autumn.