I find I have a number of copies of these pamphlets in stock, and I would like to offer them at a bargain price, all three for £5 plus postage.

They are Dutch Interiors (1988), Twelve Scenes of Malta (2000), and Friends in the Country (2004).

These three pamphlets make an interesting set, covering as they do my impressions of The Netherlands, Malta, and Poland. I’ve always found that places inspire me. Maybe it’s the change of scene, the newness, the unfamiliar sensations—but then sometimes a familiar scene sets something off and I look at it in a new way.

Friends in the Country is as much about my friends (and their dog and cat) and the winter weather as about Poland, Twelve Scenes of Malta is very much an outsider’s view of that fascinating island, and Dutch Interiors is about both people and places and even a distant Dutch ancestor.

Both Dutch Interiors and Twelve Scenes of Malta are collections of poems (16 and 12, respectively), but Friends in the Country contains two long poems about two winter visits to Poland and, among other things, the challenges of translation. At the end are a few pages of witty aphorisms by S.J. Lec that we turned into English. (“When I got to the bottom I heard knocking from below.” “He had a clear conscience—it had never been used.”)

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