
Requiem for a Typewriter
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
24 pages
978-0-9542443-4-7 (ISBN)
Description
Satirical, funny, poignant and pointed, Moss directs his wit at subjects including the Orkneys and his Olivetti typewriter, devaluation and death, moths and mothers, and poets and poetry workshops. This selection of Moss' work spans 20 years of writing from 1977-1997. Moss says he has always written poetry inspired by the poets he had learnt at school. When he began writing he had never read T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound, a point he makes with a certain pride. But his work isn't a Lost World that has somehow avoided modernist influences. Another signature of his work is its lyricism, but combined with a 'dry-eyed', modern sensibility that subverts sentiment and posturing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pighog
Illustrations
Cover photograph by Simon Dack
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-9542443-4-7 (9780954244347)
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Persons
On his journey as a poet Moss moved from seven or so years with Poetry Round in Earl's Court, London, to the Kingsway Poets, Brunswick poets and Brighton Nightwriters in Brighton & Hove. His work has been published in a number of anthologies.
Content
- Requiem for a Typewriter- Daughter of Wenceslas- New Poems by Robert Graves, 1962- I Look Before and After- The Orkneys- On Hearing of the Death of a Forgotten Cousin- Devaluation - The Human Reality- Terminal Tragedy- Capital Transfer- Lament for a New Year- The Crime- The Art of Grief- The National Cat Show- Moths- Two Women- Conduct Unbecoming- The View From the Eight Floor Flat on the Sea Front