A Last Look

Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher and in publishing. His Collected Poems and Translations (Carcanet Press) appeared in 2009. ‘...quietly determined and original...for more than 30 years he has pursued the question of landscape, how it might be lived in and worked in, recorded and celebrated.’ - Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian. ‘Wells inherits a faith in a poem as a thing in itself, that has value in a real world as well as an idyllic one’ - Tom Payne