Publisher's Synopsis
This collection is the third since Charles Tomlinson's revised Collected Poems was published in 1987. The Door in the Wall offers his readers new interests, combined with a reaching back to historical events of the past, such as the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the French political theatre of the same year.
Often referred to as a poet of landscape, here again he also surveys the urban scene: San Francisco since AIDS, prosperous Tübingen with its beggars and drugs, a New York restaurant in a Puerto Rican district. The book includes a key poem in which this long-time inhabitant of Gloucestershire compares nots with his Mexican friend Octavio Paz on their decision to remain in their native countries.
