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Selected PoemsGrevel Lindop10% off
Categories: 20th Century, British
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (140 pages) (Pub. Jun 2000) 9781857544657 £12.99 £11.69
A sill of worn green-painted wood,
A window open before dawn: Barefoot in the mild air I stood To watch above the starred horizon A swallowtail of dusty gold Stream upward from the comet's eye, While in an unfamiliar, tumbled Bed in the room behind, you lay Until I called you and you came And by the window took my hand. What powers calibrate the dark reflector of the dreaming mind? from '1985: Dreaming the Comet'
'Transparently accomplished,' as John Kerrigan has written: 'his work displays the kind of internal "itinerary" which (in Mandelstam's language) is the mark of achieved poetry'.
This book selects the best work from thirty years of that itinerary, a journey through worlds exotic, domestic, surreal and psychic, explored with visual sharpness and linguistic acuity. This is above all a poetry of colour and celebration, of strangeness blossoming inside familiarity, nurtured with a meticulous patterning of language and form. Eavan Boland has called Lindop's 'a lyric voice that moves language in and out of metaphor with skill and grace, draws you in, reminds you of an ordered and structured world the voice of a happy spirit with, maybe, a measure of regret and an interesting intimation of waste.'
Praise for Grevel Lindop
'This is a poet who is alert to the human cost and implications of different environments and the ways societies behave in them, able to interrogate what connects and separates us from one another, and yet who never seems to be telling us how clever or well-travelled he is.' - Rory Waterman, TLS
'a fascinating read.'
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