I've loved reading Laurie Lee for over forty years. I was standing on a crowded tube train recently, sifting through this selection in preparation for our poetry group. Each month we prepare poems on a different theme; next Thursday we read poems on 'Night'. I found a wonderful selection and have short-listed Night Speech, Town Owl, Sunken Evening, Twelfth Night and Christmas Landscape as some of my favourites.
Field of Autumn, the one I love best from this anthology, is sublime and reading it again makes me love it more.
This slim volume, reprinted in 1983, is compiled from three separate volumes. The poet wrote movingly, 'They were written by someone I once was and who is so distant to me now that I scarcely recognise him anymore. They speak for a time and a feeling which of course has gone from me, but for which I still have close affection and friendship.' Laurie Lee died in 1997 but his work lives on.
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