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Like the Living End

Robinson Peter
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781905208197
Publisert
2013-09-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Worple Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
5 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
38

Forfatter
Robinson Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Robinson was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1953 and grew up mainly in Liverpool. He has degrees from the universities of York and Cambridge. After teaching for many years in Japan, he is now Head of Department and Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. The poetry editor for Two Rivers Press, author of many books of poetry, prose, translations, and literary criticism, he is married with two daughters.

Like the Living End

Robinson Peter
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
Robinson Peter
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
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'Like the Living End', an elegy occasioned by the sudden death of a school friend, is the centre-piece of this gathering of poems completed since The Returning Sky (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Described as 'the finest poet of his generation' and 'the finest poet alive when it comes to the probing of shifts in atmosphere, mome
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Dirty World 1 For the Years 2 In the Drift 3 Rubbish Theory 4 Coincidences 6 Between Parentheses 7 All Change 8 Next to Nothing 9 Another Twilight 10 One Late Afternoon 11 A Middle-Age Scene 12 Note to Self 13 Ein Feste Burg 14 Like the Living End 16 On the Esplanade 23 Diminishing Returns 24 Holy Dying 26 Notes 27
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'These poems are vivid, formally experimental, often strangely celebratory - written with great warmth and tenderness', observe the selectors in the Poetry Book Society Bulletin, adding that 'Robinson is able to bring off rapid and surprising shifts in register within poems shot through with wit', and concluding that here is 'a concentration and confidence that mark this out as his finest work to date.' 'a poet who is writing at the height of his powers' - The London Magazine 'he is a major English poet' - Poetry Review
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'Like the Living End', an elegy occasioned by the sudden death of a school friend, is the centre-piece of this gathering of poems completed since The Returning Sky (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Described as 'the finest poet of his generation' and 'the finest poet alive when it comes to the probing of shifts in atmosphere, mome
Les mer
Dirty World 1 For the Years 2 In the Drift 3 Rubbish Theory 4 Coincidences 6 Between Parentheses 7 All Change 8 Next to Nothing 9 Another Twilight 10 One Late Afternoon 11 A Middle-Age Scene 12 Note to Self 13 Ein Feste Burg 14 Like the Living End 16 On the Esplanade 23 Diminishing Returns 24 Holy Dying 26 Notes 27
Les mer
'These poems are vivid, formally experimental, often strangely celebratory - written with great warmth and tenderness', observe the selectors in the Poetry Book Society Bulletin, adding that 'Robinson is able to bring off rapid and surprising shifts in register within poems shot through with wit', and concluding that here is 'a concentration and confidence that mark this out as his finest work to date.' 'a poet who is writing at the height of his powers' - The London Magazine 'he is a major English poet' - Poetry Review
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781905208197
Publisert
2013-09-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Worple Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
5 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
38

Forfatter
Robinson Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Robinson was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1953 and grew up mainly in Liverpool. He has degrees from the universities of York and Cambridge. After teaching for many years in Japan, he is now Head of Department and Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. The poetry editor for Two Rivers Press, author of many books of poetry, prose, translations, and literary criticism, he is married with two daughters.

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