In the Distance Author:Dick Davis When a brief selection of Dick Davis's poems appeared in `Poetry Introduction 2', the Times Literary Supplement commented that his best poems `combine imaginative ambitiousness with technical honesty: they avoid stylistic smartness without lapsing into competent dullness... he writes in a terse, economical, and stark but vivid style, allowing a ... more »pattern of exactly defined images to bear the weight of a neatly oblique emotional force.' Dick Davis's first full collection of poems bears out this opinion; he is already a very accomplished poet.« less