A Last Look

By Robert Wells

Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher and in publishing. His Collected Poems and Translations (Carcanet Press) appeared in 2009.

‘...quietly determined and original...for more than 30 years he has pursued the question of landscape, how it might be lived in and worked in, recorded and celebra

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mica Press
• Release date: Sep 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781869848095

Robert Wells

Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher, and in publishing. He lives in France. Carcanet has published his translations of Virgil's Georgics and The Idylls of Theocritus, and five volumes of his poetry, the last being Collected Poems and Translations (2009).

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Robert Wells

A Last Look

A Last Look published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Mica Press

Leslie Bell, 47 Belle Vue Road, Wivenhoe, Colchester, Essex CO7 9LD

www.micapress.co.uk | [e-mail]

ISBN 978-1-869848-09-5

Copyright © Robert Wells 2016

The right of Robert Wells to be identified as the author of this work 

has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

All rights reserved.

Acknowledgements:

‘The Coin Cabinet’ first appeared in The Rialto, ‘Ionian’ in Agenda, 

and ‘Loggerhead’ in the Times Literary Supplement.

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Contents

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Epigraph

‘You are already leaving...’

The Coin Cabinet

Ionian

Loggerhead

Lycian Sketches

The Garden

Winter Classroom, L’Aquila

The Smile

The Fall of Winston

Exmoor February

Time Out

In the Abruzzi

Group with Laptop

At Kirtlington

Notes

With lively step

Or plodding resignation

I follow the track –

To the one destination.

What else remains to do

Or what more to say?

Everyman, young or old,

Is on his way.

‘You are already