Invitation to View

The poems in Invitation to View , Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, which he was dissuaded from calling 'Curtain Call,' often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations. Some respond to fragments of the past, personal and historical, which haunt the present. All business is unfinished business: one can be caught out by a sudden phrase, or the look back of a landscape once seen sporting a different disguise. Invitation to View is framed by poems considering possible