Still by choice / Ruth Pitter
1966, First Edition. London : Cresset Press. Very good cloth copy in a very good, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #467587
Physical description; 35 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; A number of these poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest. Contents; The new house -- In the open -- The Irish patriarch -- Three feminine things -- Charity and its object -- Moths and mercury-vapour lamp -- Crumbs for the bird -- The heart's desire is full of sleep -- Tawny owl in fir-tree -- Exercise in the pathetic fallacy -- Old Nelly's birthday -- What old Nelly really meant -- Sweet other flesh -- One right kind of music -- Stray goose -- Dark and fair -- Morning glory -- Angels -- A dream -- Who knows? -- Night flower-piece -- Old sisters' spring -- Yorkshire wife's saga -- Leafcutter bees -- Strongest in spring -- Fragment. Subjects; Pitter, Ruth. 1897-1992. English poetry. 20th century.
Price: €12.95