Death is a Pulpit Author:Peter Levi This book contains five poems, each written for public performance on a special occasion. Traditional forms - mainly the heroic couplet - are used in a new way under a new necessity. A poem on the art of satire is followed by three sermons - for Christmas, Whitsun and the feast of St Thomas More - and the concluding poem is an elegy for T. S. El... more »iot. Together they complement the more personal poems collected in `Life is a Platform', which is published simultaneously.« less