Selected Poems

Springing from ordinary events of the day, or a picture, or an aspect of the priestly life, Scott's beautifully restrained poems work up the detail into a moment of significance. They are rooted in an English culture, going back to George Herbert, which is found not only in locality, but in understatement, and the sideways look. It evokes the delicate, intense qualifies of rural England. The pastoral nature of his daily work emerges in the later poems as a relish for detail, not trumpeted, but noticed for what it is worth.