Prehistories

Literature & Fiction

Scupham, Peter

Poetry

Oxford University Press

The hinterland

Summer palaces

History & Criticism

Peter Scupham's new collection brings together the themes of childhood and war. For the poet, a child during World War II, the two themes naturally coincide, as rumors of war, air raids, and rationing pervade his memories of boyhood.

The Air Show (Oxford Paperbacks)

This is a musical play based on a version of Rumpelstiltskin in Cornwall in the 19th century, and performed at Christmas by groups of young people who went from house to house. The performance lasts one hour.

Duffy and the Devil Piano/Conductor Edition (Cambridge Young Musicals)

Children's Books

Tutt, Rona

Tutt, David

Arts, Music & Photography

Cambridge University Press

This is a musical version of a popular play version of Rumplestiltskin from Cornwall in the 19th century where it was performed at Christmas by groups of young people who went from house to house. This performers' edition contains the libretto and musicians' parts.

Duffy and the Devil Performers' edition (Cambridge Young Musicals)

The poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, which he was dissuaded from calling 'Curtain Call,' often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations. Some respond to fragments of the past, personal and historical, which haunt the present. All business is unfinished business: one can be caught out by a sudden phrase, or the look back of a landscape once seen sporting a different disguise. Invitation to View is framed by poems considering possible visitors to the poet's 400-year-old house long after he and his partner have left it behind; it is haunted by the variety of the efforts and gestures they have made in bringing house and garden alive. Time will do its best to modify and forget all that they leave. Many gestures were theatrical: poetry picnics, productions of Shakespeare... the dead welcomed with the living. Tom Stoppard's words from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead can provide an absent epigraph: 'Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.'

Invitation to View

Carcanet Press Ltd.

This collection of poems covers some 30 years from 1972 until 2001. Peter Scupham's individual collections have usually taken as their subject one predominant theme - the enigmas of prehistory, his wartime childhood, the passing of the Edwardian generation his parents belonged to. He has always been particularly concerned with the formal and patterned use of language, and would like to think that his poems exemplify Auden's belief that poetry is a game of knowledge.

Peter Scupham Collected Poems

Oxford Poets

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