Collected Poems: Volume One 1968-1997

The two volumes of Peter Finch’s Collected Poems chart the course of a remarkable writing career. After reading Allen Ginsberg’s Howl as a young man Finch was inspired to become a poet, found the Second Aeon magazine and publishing house, and become a poetry entrepreneur, bringing to all these things an unquenchable vitality which set him apart in contemporary poetry.

This first volume makes available poems from long lost chapbooks, broadsheets and limited editions, as well as more conventio...