Invitation to View

A poignant exploration of memory, time, and interpretation through contemporary verse.
In Invitation to View, Peter Scupham invites readers into a world where past and present intertwine, offering possible and impossible interpretations of personal and historical fragments. These poems haunt the present, responding to moments that linger in memory. All business is unfinished business: a sudden phrase or a familiar landscape can catch you off guard, sporting a different disguise.

This collection considers possible visitors to a 400-year-old house long after the poet and his partner have departed, haunted by the efforts they made in bringing the house and garden to life. With theatrical gestures and echoes of Shakespeare, Scupham welcomes the dead with the living, reminding us that every exit is an entrance somewhere else. Perfect for readers of contemporary poetry and literary enthusiasts.