Peter Carpenters poetry is radiant with quiet surprises, important moments captured in the folds of an old document wallet, in back gardens or on winter sea-fronts, buried in the sand or hidden by the noise of a football crowd. Such moments take flight to uncover a distinctive take on both the here and now and the echoes of public and private histories. After the Goldrush is thus of its time and about time, in the attentive, skilful hands of a poet truly hitting his stride.




Praise for Peter Carpenter:




'a new voice, precise and distinct, and therefore, doubly welcome' George Szirtes




'In short, Peter Carpenter is a masterly portrait-painter' - Matthew Jarvis English




'always original and enjoyable poemstheres something modestly dazzling about Peter Carpenters writing, but also something wonderfully spare and taut it reminds me in places of the modern pastorals of R.F. Langley the tone jinks and darts from the tender to the sardonic, the wry to the comic' - CJ Allen, Staple.




'Peter Carpenter has the ability to pull the rug from under your feet at the very moment when you think youve got his number.' - Jeremy Page, The Frogmore Papers




Launched 4th October 2009

ISBN: 978-0-9560559-4-1

After the Gold Rush is a Nine Arches Book (less info)