HASLUCK LIBRARY

Fellow poet and critic Guy Weller has said that "Nicholas Hasluck's poetry is Table Talk - but talk of a very high order, akin to say that of Coleridge, or perhaps Henry James.

For a poet to build a sense of voice, a personal presence into his printed lines is a thing often attempted, but rarely gained. Seamus Heaney has managed the trick, as has Anne Sexton. W.H.Auden achieved this stylistic success in some of his work at least, and Phillip Larkin in nearly all of his.

Hasluck has not set out in his verse to construct grand symphonies. Instead, this writer creates pieces of chamber music of such exquisite poise and timing to remain endlessly memorable. These are poems both for the connoisseur and for the newcomer to poetry - accessible, witty, refined, clever, insightful and above all, friendly."