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Seeing the WorldDick Davis![]() 10% off
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (56 pages) (Pub. May 1997) 9780856460616 £5.95 £5.36
Seeing the World, Dick Davis’s second book of poems, received the Royal Society of Literature Award under the W.H. Heinemann Bequest in 1981. Dana Gioia wrote in The Hudson Review that it ‘confirms my impression that he is one of the two or three best young poets now writing in England … There is no mistaking one of his poems. More than any other English poet of his generation, Davis has created a distinctly personal voice.’
Awards won by Dick Davis
Winner, 1981 Royal Society of Literature Award (Seeing the World)
Praise for Dick Davis
'Original poetry and translated Persian verse weave together into a single life, translation as border and
A.E. Stallings, The TLS '...throughout Love in Another Language, a strange perfusion of elements is at work, at once familiar and exotic; there are bizarre depths, weird echoes, beneath the seemingly traditional and seemingly quite "English surfaces of the poems... Dick Davis's collected poems of over forty-three years constitute what the great Persian poet Nizami called a "makhzan-i-asrar", a treasure-house of mysteries and perfected marvels.' Eric Ormsby, the TLS 'It is marvelous to find a poet whose poetry lives through its metre. His handling of it is masterful, and you are never aware of the effort. And the language is exact but relentless, like the perceptions . . . Davis is one of the best poets around.' Thom Gunn |
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