Alec Rapkin was the UK's inaugural Poet Laureate of the Peak District from 2005-2007.
In this selection of work Alec Rapkin explores the use of the poem as a tool of natural and social inquiry. He is ever-present as observer and narrator, visiting the ordinary places of our existence, in country or town. A major theme is the ubiquity of sex, and its ritual, as a key or temporary truce between the inner self and the outside world. Each is constantly seen in terms of the other, and in such a way as to breed hope rather than foreboding.
Most days he’s out in the countryside - and is glad if his poems can convey to others something of the spirit of the Peak District.
Alec Rapkin was the UK's inaugural Poet Laureate of the Peak District from 2005-2007.
In this selection of work Alec Rapkin explores the use of the poem as a tool of natural and social inquiry. He is ever-present as observer and narrator, visiting the ordinary places of our existence, in country or town. A major theme is the ubiquity of sex, and its ritual, as a key or temporary truce between the inner self and the outside world. Each is constantly seen in terms of the other, and in such a way as to breed hope rather than foreboding.
Most days he’s out in the countryside - and is glad if his poems can convey to others something of the spirit of the Peak District.