Noise Made by Poems

'Almost every page of this book is illuminated by flashes of perception, shrewd judgements and precise spotlighting of things that one believes and had always wanted to say as well as he does' - Eric Mathieson, Ambit '...there is a rare generosity of spirit throughout the book, a generosity which arises naturally from Levi's love and respect for poets' words which have gripped his attention. Such consistent critical empiricism refuses the blinkers of ready-made poetics and received critical opinion... As a counterforce to the (alas, ever-present) deadweight of academic theory which feeds on its own dull substance, Peter Levi's mercurial essay should be added to all lists of essential reading' - Alan Young, PN Review