The Bare Abundance: Selected Poems, 1975-2001

G.F. Dutton writes austerely passionate poems that search and illuminate the world about us. They are as much explorations as his notable scientific work: both draw on one continuous spectrum of experience. In his diverse life and work, metaphor is as significant as the clear cut episodes that invoke it. From his wind-blasted vantage-point edging the Scottish Highlands, he has explored mountain, sea, forest, industrial city, various arts and biomolecular research, publishing books on wild water swimming, mountaineering and mountain gardening as well as his award-winning poetry. Numerous scientific publications add to this continuous spectrum of enquiry: an abundance he finds multiplied, maybe unified, by being laid bare.