Now that he is eighty-four, Anthony Thwaite says that Going Out is
likely to be the last book of poems he publishes in his lifetime,
and that the title is apt. But the words are wistful, even playful,
and that is true of some of the book's contents. The poems range
over times and places, commemorating friends (especially the poet
Peter Porter), and draw on memories, hard-won faith,
self-questioning. As Michael Frayn has put it, Thwaite 'writes with
simplicity and precision about difficult and ambiguous things, the
complexity and unceasingness of the world, the vastness and
richness of the past, the elusiveness of the present - and the
heroic persistence of our efforts to fix some trace of all this.'
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