Dicing for Pearls Author:Jeremy Reed This is a selection of thirty poems. Kathleen Raine described his "Selected Poems" (1987) as the work of 'the most imaginatively gifted poet since Dylan Thomas'. Seamus Heaney referred to Reed's 'rich and careful writing', and David Lodge drew attention to his 'remarkable lyric gift'. "Dicing for Pearls" - An emerald lives in the fern's heart. S... more »tillshine like this pool in the valley where a deer hallucinates.« less