Sequences.

LESLIE NORRIS'S eleventh collection of poetry, 'Sequences', brings together some of his strongest and most eloquent recent work. Norris's poetry is marked by a keen eye for the natural world and with rich, pleasing music. It is by turns celebratory and elegaic, now praising nature's complexities, now mourning our transitory place in the world. Two long poems frame this book, one set in North America (seen from the eye of a hawk), the other in the author's native Wales. Norris's topography is simultaneously vital and magical. It is destined to find a secure place in our literature. Leslie Norris's many books include 'Walking the White Fields Poems; 1967-80', two collections of stories, 'Sliding' and 'The Girl from Cardigan' (also published by Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.), a study of Dylan Thomas, and 'Norris's Ark', a selection of his children's verse. A frequent contributor to the Atlantic and the New Yorker, he has taught at a number of universities in England and America.