Peter Cash: LINCOLNSHIRE CHURCHES (1998) £4.50

£4.50 Of English counties, only Norfolk and Somerset can boast more churches than Lincolnshire. Peter Cash grew up in area of the county in which church buildings are ubiquitous.  “They creep into your consciousness,” he explains, “whether you hold religious beliefs [which he doesn’t] or not …   You cannot drive more than five miles […]

Peter Cash: FEN POEMS (1992) Out of Print

Fen Poems was published in December 1992 and sold out within the year. Peter Cash was born in Skegness in Lincolnshire on the last day of 1949. He grew up in Wainfleet (where his family kept a shop) and attended Skegness Grammar School. Between 1968 and 1976, he studied English at Nottingham University (where he […]

Peter Cash: WORLDS APART & BIRD SONGS (1985) £4.50

£4.50 This book, Peter Cash’s third collection, is in two distinct sections. Written for his close friend Paula Moore, Worlds Apart itself has an epigraph by Robert Graves which prepares readers ominously for the sequence of poems to come: “My main theme was always the practical impossibility, transcended only by a belief in miracle, of […]

Peter Cash: MAGICIAN IN THE RAIN (1983) £4.50

£4.50 In 1972, Peter Cash, wrote his B.A. dissertation on the poetry of Laurie Lee (1914-1996). Written in Lee’s style, these ten lyrics imply a synaesthetic association between an appreciation of the rural world and an enjoyment of sexual experience, suggesting that the two can be simultaneous and equally sensuous. Originally commissioned by Gallery Five […]