Set Thy Love in Order by Stephen Romer Leonardo Boix Mark Waldron

Mark Waldron

both compassionate and uncompromising

Observer (Poetry Book of the Month)

and conflicting voices tumble and echo almost to the point of destruction

Set Thy Love in Order by Stephen Romer Leonardo Boix Mark WaldronSet Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romers four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore, O tu che m ami set thy love in order, o thou who lovest me. Romers central theme is encapsulated by these words, and his prolonged and painstaking exploration of the intermittences of the