A distinguished poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, translator, dramatist and editor, Harold Rhenisch, regards poetry as "a dance between body and intellect." In The Spoken World he has written a layered and fascinating exploration of his intense and fruitful relationship with the late Robin Skelton. Rhenisch writes with honesty and courage of the difficult passage into poetry and the man who "guided me, out of my earth and my deafness...