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This is an array of the best of William Peskett's poetry, most chosen from his two choices of poems by adding a number of newer works. A lot of the poems time frame from the 1960s and 1970s, when Peskett was part of any vigorous poetic activity that emerged from politically troubled Northern Ireland. Although few of the poets employed in the Province in those days needed politics as a major theme, Peskett's work specifically maintains a distance from the Troubles, working more commonly with the natural world and our connections with it, especially through knowledge. Other trained experts have written poems, but few have gone so far as Peskett in analyzing the possibilities (and risks) of medical method or, as it were, changed the microscope the other way round to bring a medical eye to keep on human connections and thoughts. Others have defined Peskett as "neat and audacious, light and witty", incorporating "a penetrating intellect with a sensitive and sensuous perception." As though to underline the uniqueness of his tone of voice, one reviewer remarked, "Peskett is not reluctant, as so many poets these days appear to be, to be found alone with an idea." Selected Poems presents young viewers with a chance to acquaint themselves with the best of Peskett's work. For all those already familiar with them, the new ordering of the poems, and the reading by the poet himself, often extracts new meaning from well-known lines.
