Selected Poems
Published on 22. January 1996
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Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-571-17659-5 (ISBN)
Description
When T.S. Eliot wrote of W.S. Graham's collection, The Nightfishing, that 'some of these poems - by their sustained power, their emotional depth and maturity and their superb technical skill - may well be among the more important poetical achievements of our time', he could not have stated the truth more clearly.
Graham's career, which ended with his death in 1986, followed a pattern of steady refinement of vision and ever-deepening enquiry. In Selected Poems, taken from both the publications of his lifetime and posthumous volumes, and containing at least one major poem never collected before, the full stature of this still insufficiently appreciated genius is revealed.
'His song is unique and his work is an inspiration.' Harold Pinter
'A music not to be mistaken for anybody else's.' Edwin Morgan
'One of the most original poets of his time.' Peter Porter
'One of the very few poets now writing whom it is absolutely necessary to come to terms with.' John Heath-Stubbs
Graham's career, which ended with his death in 1986, followed a pattern of steady refinement of vision and ever-deepening enquiry. In Selected Poems, taken from both the publications of his lifetime and posthumous volumes, and containing at least one major poem never collected before, the full stature of this still insufficiently appreciated genius is revealed.
'His song is unique and his work is an inspiration.' Harold Pinter
'A music not to be mistaken for anybody else's.' Edwin Morgan
'One of the most original poets of his time.' Peter Porter
'One of the very few poets now writing whom it is absolutely necessary to come to terms with.' John Heath-Stubbs
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
140 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-17659-5 (9780571176595)
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W. S. Graham was born in Greenock in 1918. His first book of poems, Cage without Grievance, was published in 1942. Subsequent volumes were The Seven Journeys (1944), 2ND Poems (1945), The White Threshold (1949), The Nightfishing (1955), Malcolm Mooney's Land (1970) and Implements in Their Places (1977). His Collected Poems 1942-1977 appeared in 1979, and two posthumous volumes have followed: Uncollected Poems, from the Greville Press in 1990, and Aimed at Nobody, from Faber and Faber in 1993. W. S. Graham lived for most of his adult life in Cornwall, and died there in 1986.