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Peter's first full collection, Looking for You, was published in 2001 (Hearing Eye), followed by Wide Skies, Salt and Best Better, in November 2005. Review comments on Wide Skies, Salt and Best Bitter: The tone is witty, both innocent and knowing, aware of the unstated opposite point of view and the daftness of the sophisticated play. His language is accurate, shaggy, Anglo-Saxon and almost syllabic — 'the scruff of the forest', the 'slosh of marshes', 'a shoal of rain', 'clouds large as parks'. But combed words come where needed...This joyous, enjoyable, unpretentious romp, where the art conceals considerable art, is more serious than it looks. Herbert
Lomas, Ambit 185, Summer 2006 The Norfolk sequences occupy the first half of the book and have the simple but precise visual artistry of a Thomas Bewick... Perhaps we too often sniff suspiciously at the light-hearted and sunny in poetry; perhaps we too seldom meet it, unalloyed by sentimentality or jokiness. Here we do. Michael
Standen, Other
Poetry, Spring 2006 ... begins as a paean to Norfolk... cows that "trail past like philosphers / learned in the truth of cows"...There is comedy in the ordinary... Yet, just as you are tempted to laugh at him, he hits you with the unexpected—how it might feel to be a fox in the city feasting from dustbins... Phillips at times recalls Leopold Bloom. Stoddard
Martin In Looking for You, Peter Phillips portrays a tense, anxious, colourful, sexy, eccentric , enjoyable world as he explores the key relationships in his life through a series of poems. The sequence ‘Looking For You’ charts the insidious onset of Alzheimer’s disease in his mother, moving on to other sequences dealing with the death of his first wife and subsequently finding new love. ‘Night Tales’ takes us into the poet’s intimate night-time world, while ‘Fox Tales’ records some off-beat encounters with foxes. In between, he turns to such diverse subjects as camels In Camden Town, hypochondria, cows and human frailty as he whizzes you from his native London to Prague, Palm Beach, the French Riviera and New York, taking in the Lake District and Scotland on the way. Comments on Looking For You The book is a triumph of the comic (the word is used in no trivial sense) spirit... A moving collection.
Glyn Pursglove,
Acumen Often exquisitely rendered… direct, affecting and refreshingly unfussy. Catherine Smith, Frogmore Papers His pamphlet collection, Frayed at the Edges was published in 1997 (Hearing Eye). ... for all its wicked accuracy, this is a serious and tender collection, opening with a variety of love poems, moving on to wider themes, including some more sombre and deeply affecting poems about the key relationships in his life. Comments on Frayed at the Edges The writing is robust and sure, not afraid to be vernacular and quirky. Sensualities feature, food, drink, love and sex... I enjoyed these poems and hope there will be more.
Mo Watson, Other
Poetry Now that poetry is going back looking for the public it left behind, Peter Phillips should pick up support... This is a first collection of undoubted promise. Sam Gardiner, Seam
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