Selected and introduced by Anthony Thwaite
Read by Patrick Garland
Richard Selig died last October aged twenty-seven. He studied under the poet Theodore Roethke at Washington University, and the influence of Roethke is evident in some of his earlier poems After a year as a teaching fellow at Washington he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.
This selection is made from the poems Selig wrote in the last three or four years of his life.