The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose

First edition. 8vo. 390pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper (priced £18.95 to front flap).

Signed by Author to title-page.

"This book presents a sample of the other writing I do. It isn't as important as poetry, it isn't sacred, and it isn't as much fun. It helps me to think, and to find out what I think; it gets things off my chest; it sometimes starts the bird poetry from her covert, and occasionally it attains a measure of poetry in its own right."

A collection of speculative essays, including early reviews, supporting Murray's belief that "poetry is the deep pattern by which humans organise reality". "There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate and conversational." –Derek Walcott