The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Harvard University Press ‘Didsbury’s is the kind of

‘Didsbury’s is the kind of work which makes you realise what you’ve been putting up with in the meantime

' – Michael Symmons Roberts

Rebecca Perry’s debut collection has the duality and symmetry of its title at its core

The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore

The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Harvard University Press ‘Didsbury’s is the kind ofI cant bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty. So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longleys previous book Angel Hill. Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about painters