IAN HAMILTON is well-known as a poet, editor, biographer and reviewer.

He founded and edited first the Review, then from 1974 - 1979 the New Review. His volumes of poetry include The Visit and Fifty Poems, published by Faber.

      He has written biographies of Robert Lowell a study of the life of JD Salinger and a portrait of Matthew Arnold.

His most recent book of poems, Steps is published by Cargo Press

This publication is
now out of print.

The distinguished poet, critic and biographer's long-awaited book of poems, his first since 1988.

        ' ... Lay down your scythe. Don't fidget
          for old clearances, or new. For one more day
          Let's listen to our shadows and be glad
          That this much light has managed to get through'   The Garden

         'Who turned the page? When I went out
          Last night, his Life was left wide-open,
          half-way through, in lamplight on my desk:
          The Middle Years.
          Now look at him. Who turned the page?'

Biography
'The poet wistfully explores the ambiguities of age and loss in domestic landscapes where past and present, dream and reality, day and night, curl and uncurl like woodsmoke from some late autumnal leaf burning.' Peter Bland in London Magazine.

'They are very skillfully composed and, despite their surface appearance of modernity, they carry .. wistfully old-fashioned cadences...' Vernon Scannell in the Sunday Telegraph.

Essays, poems, & reflections on Ian Hamilton.
Editor: David Harsent. Limited Edition. ISBN 1 899980 06 7, hardback special discount price: £18.50, (reduced from £25.00) 240x160. 160 pp

The result is an unrivalled portrait of literary London for the last thirty years, a Who's Who? of Britain's best poets, novelists, and playwrights resulting in a unique document filled with wit and humour: a fine catalogue of literary triumphs and feuds... a must.

CONTRIBUTORS:  A Alvarez, Julian Barnes, Peter Dale, Douglas Dunn, Colin Falck, Michael Fried , John Fuller, Simon Gray, Dan Jacobson, Clive James, Alan Jenkins, Ian McEwan , Karl Miller, Blake Morrison, Andrew Motion , Charles Osborne, Harold Pinter, Peter Porter, Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Hugo Williams.

'Ian was the Gaffer, someone whose presence and example makes you write as well as you are able.' Julian Barnes

'Ian has shown us a way forward from our crisis with a poetry not of posturing or verbal cleverness, but of a quiet and reverential humility before the real.' Colin Falck

'What he managed, probably without meaning to, was to create a milieu. Writers gathered around The New Review because they respected his ideas of quality.' Ian McEwan

'I read his poems at various public gatherings and was struck always by the audience's stilled response to a poetry which was at one and the same time so delicate and so full of sinew.'  Harold Pinter .