All Peter Didsbury's books have had wildly enthusiastic reviews. The Classical Farm won him a Cholmondeley Award and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Despite working away from the literary limelight as an archaeologist, this 'secular mystic with the lugubrious tongue' (Independent on Sunday) has attracted a dedicated readership: the TLS called him the best new poet published by Bloodaxe. His second collection The Classical Farm is now out of print but the whole book is included in his retrospective Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected Poems (2003).