Viriditas

Peter Levi, born in 1931, became a prolific writer of biographies, travel books, translations, critical and scholarly works, and thrillers. He was, however, first and foremost a poet and held the Oxford Professorship of Poetry from 1984 to 1989. Anvil published over a dozen books of his poetry, as well as two prose books, 'The Noise Made by Poems' (1984) and 'The Lamentation of the Dead' (1984), his first Oxford lecture. A former Jesuit priest, Peter Levi died on 1 February 2000.

'I think that many of Peter Levi's poems will live; there is the mark of permanence upon them' - Elizabeth Jennings'His is certainly one of the most authentic and original, perhaps one of the major talents of his generation' - John Heath-Stubbs'Levi writes like nobody else' - P J Kavanagh