What Flows Across the Glass
Published on 22. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
77 pages
978-1-907587-77-1 (ISBN)
Description
Roger Moulson's first collection Waiting for the Night-Rowers caught the poetry world by surprise. Critics hailed a new talent, and the debut won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Book Award, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize. Almost a decade later comes What Flows Across the Glass, a mesmerising sophomore collection that consolidates the rapid rise of this brilliant poetic talent.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-907587-77-1 (9781907587771)
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Roger Moulson was born in 1945 and brought up in West Yorkshire. He read classics at Oxford. He has been a postman, supermarket manager, sales forcaster, seller of sweets and radios, and a teacher of English in southern Sudan and London. Most recently he was a tax inspector. He is married and lives in Watford. - - - - -------------- 'Original is a word often employed and frequently misapplied. Here, it is fully deserved: in Moulson's poetry the usual turns into the extraordinary and the apprehensive into the exultant. 'Waiting for the Night-Rowers', for example, is like no other poem I have read - to write like this, you must be inspired and know your way round the many corners of English Verse.' Peter Porter