In a Rare Time of Rain

Milner Place, the writer of two pamphlet poetry collections, "The Confusion of Anglers" and "Where Smoke Is", has spent much of his life as the skipper of a trading boat, while also writing poetry. This is his first full-length collection. Some of the poems are sea-going yarns, others are set in South America. There are also a handful of character portraits, and a long poem, "Lum Street", based on a row of terraced houses, its tenants and their relationships to each other.