The ark

the long version

The poems in The Ark explore questions that hover on the borderlines of what 'is' and what 'seems to be', of life and death, of truth and lies. In a complex, often dark, collection, Peter Scupham steers his 'ark' to 'its safe and certain loss', with a freight of dreams, memories, terrors, gifts. Four very different sequences hold the collection together: an experimental and mysterious sequence 'Accident'; 'Annunciations'; 'Nacht und Nebel' (Night and Fog); and 'A Habitat' - a group about the finding and retrieval of an old house from its ghostly past.