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Selected PoemsDavid Wright
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (128 pages) (Pub. Jul 1997) 9780856357534 Out of Stock
The present volume provides the best introduction to the work of this intelligent and lucid poet, with a selection from previous collections and a handful of recent poems. It offers vivid impressions of South Africa, Westmorland, Cumberland and the Algarve, as well as recollections of the many poets and artists who have been his friends.
Five South African Poems
On Himself Canons Ashby On the Death of an Emperor Penguin in Regent's Park Moral Stories A Funeral Oration Monologue of a Deaf Man An Invocation to the Goddess Adam at Evening Rhapsody of a Middle-aged Man At a Café Table A Visit to the Protestant Cemetery By the Effigy of St Cecilia Campo Santo Kleomedes Plettenberg's Bay On the Margin A Cemetery in Dumfriesshire Chester Car Park The Lakes Grasmere Sonnets The Deviser Words Swift Rook E.P. as Westminster On a Friend Dying A Peripatetic Letter to Isabella Fey Bom Jesus Encounter Balloon The Musician Procession Cockermouth Five Songs Notes on a Visit Beeches Images for a Painter Prospects An Elegy
'It is this luxury of authenticity which David Wright's book offers, and the reader who once gives himself up to the deep, quiet pleasure which is to be got from his poems is likely to form an addiction.'
C.H. Sisson, TLS 'Wright is a master at finding the appropriate form for his subject-matter.' Wendy Cope, TES
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