Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts
Published on 10. June 2021
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-77656-422-4 (ISBN)
Description
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming Here--in which he wrote the first of his 'Secret Life' poems--to his 2018 collection Winter Eyes, which reviewer Tim Upperton called 'unsettling, moving, both estranging and empathetic, ' Ricketts has written of friendship, youth, romance, loss, and the small moments that carry a lifelong weight, or light, within us. His voice is recognisable for its humility, intelligence, and warmth. In Selected Poems, its full range is represented for the first time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wellington
New Zealand
Publishing group
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77656-422-4 (9781776564224)
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Harry Ricketts teaches English literature and creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a literary scholar, biographer, essayist, reviewer, editor, and poet. His publications include the internationally acclaimed The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling (1999) and Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War (2010). His previous collection of poetry is Winter Eyes (2018).