but life has taught me obliqueness." And from his earliest poetry he demonstrated a style so spare that it could almost be taken as meditative prose. This allowed him to pursue ideas and stories but then, with a rare poetic gift, to subvert them with quietly devastating cadences. For example, an early poem which establishes delicately that "Chimpanzees are blameless creatures" concludes "and it's only if they're frightened/that they'll tear your cheek off."from The Telegraph: Herbert Lomas
then EADT24: Aldeburgh: Eminent poet leaves legacy of loved work
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