Poetry. There is an obstinately tender patience in these poems, a care that hears the sounds of words still as the fact of human voices. In a world of increasing abstraction, such solidness is a great and generous blessing-Robert Creeley. It is Caddel's ability to see the infinite in lakes and woods and/ maggots in apples/ small blue// flower by the/ path (Baltic Coast VI: Continuous Present), coupled with his care and subtlety in drawing it out, that give the poems in LARKSONG SIGNAL their own particular luminosity. LARKSONG SIGNAL is Richard Caddel's third major collection, following SWEET CICELY and UNCERTAIN TIME. He is the founder of Pig Press and is Co-Director of the Basil Bunting Poetry Centre at the University of Durham.

Larksong Signal

Literature & Fiction

Caddel, Richard

Poetry

Shearsman Books

Poetry. UNCERTAIN TIME is Ric Caddel's first book to be published in the United States. Here is a poet rare in his modesty and wit, who crafted by ear a music, in Ric's words, "with scope to sing the things I love as they occur." Poet Aaron Tieger edited and wrote the introduction to UNCERTAIN TIME.

Uncertain Time

Pressed Wafer

Sweet Cicely

Taxvs Press

Poems by Richard Caddel, drawings by Basil King

Against Numerology

North and South

<p>Poetry "To read Richard Caddel's life of the poem - MAGPIE WORDS - is to relearn why poetry still matters. His writing cleanses our shared language of its inherited toxicity. Each notebook jotting is placed with an eye to new coherence as if his poems were carpentered together from rescued fragments of almost-lost speech.There is no smooth finality. His poems ask us to stop - in our headlong rush forward - to read and re-read our lives with critical attention"-Kathleen Frazer "I love this poet's particularity, his quiet persistence, the care he offers the world and everything in it/ Whatever is human is blest by his being one too"-Robert Creely.</p>

Magpie Words

West House Press