Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Eisvogel where lynx stalk and packs

where lynx stalk and packs of wolves roam

The poet swims among fishermen on Grasmere

Klara Zetterholm

If we were closer I would take you by the hand and show you what we could do

and sometimes imaginative

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Eisvogel where lynx stalk and packsStranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age. Richard Skelton began this book length poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britains landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance,