Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley #Bloodaxebooks The arrangement translated here has

The arrangement translated here has only appeared in German as Aus Taschen-Büchern und Merk-Blättern

James Berry's assumed patois when he reads "Defendant in a Jamaican Court" brings the voice - "Yes I did chop him

which comprise the third and fourth parts of a quartet written over ten years: the first two parts are The Whales in Paris and Tarkovsky's Horses (published in English by Bloodaxe in 2010 as Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems)

’ Sean O’Brien

Unexplained violences and strange metamorphoses take shape in the ‘glowering dusk’

Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley #Bloodaxebooks The arrangement translated here hasThe Upper Calder Valley, in the westernmost part of Yorkshire, is a landscape of high moors, small farms and wooded hillsides, rising steeply from the market towns situated along the valley. It is the setting for many of the poems in Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls, in which the conditions of movement (of buses, trains, water and wind) are set against the conditions of stillness (the abandoned chapels and demolished mills that persist at