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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 Tranströmer, the Plymouth Blitz, the Rame Peninsula in…mehr

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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 Tranströmer, 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.
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Paul Rossiter was born in Cornwall in 1947. After spending six months in Tokyo in 1969, he worked as a musician in the UK until he moved permanently to Japan in 1981. He has published nine books of poetry since 1995. He retired from university teaching in 2012 and in the following year founded Isobar Press, dedicated to publishing English-language poetry from Japan and English translations of modernist and contemporary Japanese poetry.