Edge to Edge

New and Selected Poems

Dale Peter

"Edge to Edge" brings together the best of Peter Dale's original work from 1968 to the present. It is an impressive oeuvre which reveals Dale as a quintessentially English poet whose work is characterized by an intense depth of feeling, channeled and heightened by a sure control of form and metre.

About the Author

Peter Dale was born in Addleston, Surrey in 1938 and educated at St Peter's College, Oxford. He worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a freelance writer in 1993. He was co-editor of the poetry journal Agenda for many years. He is renowned for his translations from French (Corbiere, Laforgue, Valery and Villon) and Italian (a complete terza rima English version of Dante's Divine Comedy). His new and selected poems, "Edge to Edge", appeared in 1997 and was followed by Under the Breath in 2002 and Local Habitation in 2009. He now lives in Cardiff.

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