Product Description: Poetry. UNCERTAIN TIME is Ric Caddel's first book to be published in the United States. Here is a poet rare in his modesty and wit, who crafted by ear a music, in Ric's words, "with scope to sing the things I love as they occur." Poet Aaron Tieger edited and wrote the introduction to UNCERTAIN TIME...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Richard Caddel began WRITING IN THE DARK after he was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1999; he regarded the series as ongoing, to be "finished" only by his death, which came in April 2003. The poems are an extended meditation on the many connotations of darkness and were originally drafted literally "in the dark," using a hand-held Psion with a backlit screen, in England and Japan...read more

Product Description: Cultural Studies. This lengthy interview with Richard Caddel was republished by West House to coincide with their publication of his selected poetry of the last thirty years, MAGPIE WORDS. He speaks at some length about Basil Bunting and the post-war regional poetry scene in the north of Britain, but also about more current and international issues:"To me, the "open" part of open-field poetry is again an invitation to the reader, you out there in the dinghy, to participate - without that it's a sterile pulpit-craft which I want none of...read more

Product Description: Poetry "To read Richard Caddel's life of the poem - MAGPIE WORDS - is to relearn why poetry still matters. His writing cleanses our shared language of its inherited toxicity. Each notebook jotting is placed with an eye to new coherence as if his poems were carpentered together from rescued fragments of almost-lost speech...read more

Product Description: When most Americans think of contemporary British poetry, they think of such mainstream poets as Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Geoffrey Hill. Yet there is a vibrant, diverse alternative poetry movement in the UK, inspired in large measure by the work of such significant mentors as Basil Bunting and J...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)