Peter Maxwell: 2 books

A further selection of poems from the author of the widely read, Feathers in the Well.Someone once said that to write poetry and then to publish with the thought of profit was like dropping a feather down the well and waiting for the splash. Thank you to all those readers of Feathers in the Well who proved this isn’t always so. I hope you will enjoy these few more feathers.

I hope you will enjoy “Feathers in the Well”. The title refers to a wisdom once shared with me: that to write poetry and then to publish with the thought of profit would be like dropping a feather down the well – and waiting for the splash. I hope to prove that warning wrong. My...