The day is a cold grey stone

Allan Safarik is a poet who is driven by the love of language as much as by the external world. By discovery and singing he brings us a world we identify with and rejoice in. Always peculiar, always imaginative, these poems echo the language and concerns of poets like Newlove and Birney. Here is the world of the imagination and the world of the rugged and beautiful West Coast landscape.The Day is a Cold Grey Stone brings together new and selected...