The seventy-eight-year-old American poet Peler Kane Dufault is not well known on either side of the Atlantic, but he deserves to be. An earlier Selected Poems impressed by its syn¬taetical fluidity, the poet’s sense of “prosody in the bedrock and roll of the world”, his ability to (as Ted Hughes puts it on the cover) [...]

Sailing to Hokkaido won the prestigious Patrick Kavanagh Award for Best First Collection (2000) and has been widely acclaimed since its publication in October 2001.
“These are likeable open-handed poems, inviting us into the poet’s experiences - both as foreign journeys and as explorations of language and verse techniques.”
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was born in 1957 in Ewell, Surrey and now lives and works in Kent. He read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge and has taught English and Drama since 1980. His poems and critical articles have appeared in many publications including The English Review, The Independent, P.N. Review, Poetry Wales and The Rialto.

is a writer, critic, broadcaster, researcher and journalist. His recent books include Invisible Forms - a guide to literary curiosities (Picador); The Oxford Book of Money, The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader (Carcanet). His Radio 3 programme on Ruskin - ‘People Be Good‘ was broadcast in January 2000. Recent television includes a two part documentary ‘The [...]