Leslie Norris: The Complete Poems Yang Lian This book vividly evokes the

This book vividly evokes the backgrounds

by some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish poetry (Eavan Boland

Ivor Gurney and Elizabeth Gaskell

I particularly relished her poems about parenthood

Bernard Howells

Leslie Norris: The Complete Poems Yang Lian This book vividly evokes theThis landmark publication of more than 300 poems reflects the sixty plus year publishing life of the late Leslie Norris, who died in 2007, aged 86. Norris was best known as a nature poet and elegist of passion and rare expression. Lyrical and individual, to his closely observed poems, each word weighted and in its correct place, Norris introduces a strong metaphysical element which makes the poems, as Edward Lucie Smith noted, "much larger than the