PHRASE BOOK

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Original illustrated card wrappers showing minor edgewear. The poorly manufactured binding has weakened, causing the second gathering of pages to become partially detached.

Inscribed by the author "For Pat / with warmest wishes for / your poems, / love, /Jo x/ June 2005". Shapcott's second collection, the title poem of which won the 1991 National Poetry Competition. Provenance: from the library of the multi-award winning poet Pat Borthwick.