Poetry. Richard Caddel began WRITING IN THE DARK after he was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1999; he regarded the series as ongoing, to be "finished" only by his death, which came in April 2003. The poems are an extended meditation on the many connotations of darkness and were originally drafted literally "in the dark," using a hand-held Psion with a backlit screen, in England and Japan. "Caddel continually finds the right way to say what he needs to say. Each form serves its occasion. Each occasion matters to Caddel, and subsequently to us"—Martin Corless-Smith.

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Ric Caddel (1949-2003) was a poet, librarian and, with his wife Ann, the publisher of Pig Press. He published numerous books including his selected MAGPIE WORDS. At Durham University he headed the Basil Bunting Poetry Center. Pig Press brought out books by August Kleinzahler, Robert Creeley and Lorine Niedecker among many others.