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Just Think of itGavin Bantock
Categories: 20th Century, British
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (128 pages) (Pub. Mar 2002) 9780856463167 Out of Stock
Just Think of It Albert Einstein, or some such genius or other, But what happens, I wonder, when we consider Moreover that same star, which might embody Is there perhaps some undetected paradox here? That star of mine is still shining. Just think of it.
Milton Loved Satan More than any other character For all his preached puritanical His so-called good characters But his devils, all fallen angels, are Which makes me wonder if, Come out with a great sigh of relief I think perhaps that more than half of Derived from a kind of entrenched envy To walk in the world without a mask In Just Think of It, his first collection for over twenty years, Gavin Bantock proves that he has not grown tame. His many years in Japan have enriched his perspective when writing about life in Britain; he is also an acute observer of Japanese life from an Englishman’s point of view. In his verse the clarity and simplicity of Japanese art combine with vivid (and often provocative and outlandish) imagery, as he writes with wit and precision on such subjects as the king crab, the speed of thought, and the proper place to read poetry: the lavatory.
Awards won by Gavin Bantock
Short-listed, 1988 Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition
Winner, 1969 Eric Gregory Award
Winner, 1966 Poetry Society's Award
Winner, 1964 Richard Hillary Award
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