Against the Current

In his new collection, 'Against the Current', Hampton contends that poems should act as witnesses to their time and that poets, above all, the silencesthat shut so many people in. The poems in this three-part book, whose axis is London and Middle England, but whose range is much wider, with a time span from classical Rome to this morning's news, breathe and embody the urgency of the poet's essential task to resist acquiescence and stand Against the Current.