The Walled Garden

The Return to the Great Tradition: a master of modern English." Quarterly Review "like a Renaissance painting of the Crucifixion falling off a museum wall onto a viewer" University Bookman "a fascinating, and unusual combination of different elements... the city landscapes were particularly powerful." Alison Brackenbury "There's a great honesty driving through the collection which is always impressive." John Powell Ward "very fine: there's a confidence and rooted maturity about them; and nothing ornate!" Peter Mullen "convey a gentle Christian vision, pertinent to the world in which we live" Roger Scruton "very much resemble the vision of my husband." Annette Kirk "verse has a welcoming simplicity" John Saward "an ear for beautiful things!" Fiona Sampson "a Catholic Geoffrey Hill?" Aidan Nichols "wouldn't it be charming to sit down with a new book of poetry and be able to appreciate its beauties as well as its mysteries? To find that, after all, it is possible to disentangle meanings from complex syntactical configurations, and that, perhaps, looking up the occasional word is not so painful as originally imagined? If only there were a modern book of poetry, accessible enough to understand with a bit of work, that was written with a sincere sense of the true and the beautiful. That would be worthwhile. [This] is just such a book." St Austin Review Note: this book has been continuously updated since first publication in 2011 and so contains all of the author's poetic work.