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Metamorphic Adventures

Tony Connor

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Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Paperback (120 pages)
(Pub. Jun 1997)
9780856462610
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  • Tony Connor’s new collection, his first in nine years, continues his powerful, alert investigations into the past and present, rooted in specific times and places. Memories of a Lancashire childhood mix here with tales from contemporary America and a group of surrealistic dream poems which give the book its title.

    Tony Connor was born in 1930. He left school at the age of fourteen and worked as a textile designer in Manchester for many years. His first collection of poems appeared in 1962; he is also a playwright and librettist. Since 1971 he has lived mainly in Middletown, Connecticut where he ... read more
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