Wells, Robert

(1947- )

(The information is from the Carcanet Press website.)

   Born in Oxford, he has worked as a woodman on Exmoor, a teacher in Italy and Iran, and in publishing. He now lives in France. The Day and Other Poems (2006) consists of short, highly wrought poems divided into four sections: the poet's experience as an Exmoor forester; a sequence set in the Sabine hills in central Italy; a theme of erotic friendship; and miscellany that mixes anecdote and satirical epigram with compacted memories of travel.

   His other publications: The Winter's Task, 1977. Virgil's Georgics, 1892. Selected Poems, 1986. Theocritus's Idylls, 1988. Lusus, 1999 (a collection of classical poems)

   Some of his poems: "After Haymaking," "The Alfred Jewel," "Derelict Landscape," "The Colonist," "Further on Down," "The Stream," "Sunrise."

   Sources: P.E.N. New Poetry I. Robert Nye, ed. Quartet Books, 1986. Some Contemporary Poets of Britain and Ireland: An Antholog y. Michael Schmidt, ed. Carcanet Press, 1983. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 11th ed. The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2005 (http://www.columbiagrangers.org).