
Collected Poems
Ivor Gurney(Author)
P. J. Kavanagh(Editor)
Fyfield Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
410 pages
978-1-85754-709-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this new edition Gurney's poems have been re-ordered to take into account new scholarship with the texts having been revised and corrected against the manuscripts. Gurney is now acknowledged as one of the major war poets with a resurgence in public interest.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
2 maps, 1 port.
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85754-709-2 (9781857547092)
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Persons
Ivor Gurney was a prolific composer and poet and the author of War Letters. As a result of his involvement in World War I, he spent the last 16 years of his life in mental institutions. P. J. Kavanagh is a writer, an editor, and a former columnist for the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Collected Poems, The Perfect Stranger, and Voices in Ireland and the editor of The Essential G. K. Chesterton and The Oxford Book of Short Poems. He is the recipient of the Cholmondeley Award for poetry, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Richard Hillary Prize.