Summer

This seasonal anthology collects short poems and prose extracts about summer: heat, harvest, sea-bathing, long evenings, and the pause in the year when work and idleness change places. Pieces range from lyrics and nature writing to passages from novels, letters, and diaries. Typical subjects are gardens, weather, travel, and the mixture of plenty and lassitude the season brings. There is no continuous argument or plot. The book is a thematic sampler meant to be read in sittings, not a monograph on climate and not a single author's summer journal.

Quarter bound in orange cloth with colour picture printed paper sides. Yellow endpapers. Issued without slipcase or dust-jacket.