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Collected Poems and Selected TranslationsNorman CameronEdited by Warren Hope and Jonathan Barker![]()
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Hardback (160 pages) (Pub. May 1990) 9780856462023 Out of Stock
Moonlight, Waterlight and Opal ‘Moonlight, Waterlight and Opal are good I loved their glitter, like a mirror’s face These moonbeam niceties, sweet to undergo,
Punishment Enough They say that women, in a bombing-raid, You’ve often seen a house, sliced like a cheese, When you confess your sins before a parson, If after death you pay for your misdeeds, Golf scorecards faked, thefts from your mother’s purse …
Je Suis François … from François Villon Francis by name, France’s by birth This is the first complete edition of the poetry of Norman Cameron (1905–53) to appear in Britain. As Jonathan Barker writes in his introduction, it is ‘the product of the shared transatlantic enthusiasm of Warren Hope and myself for the work of a poet whom we both see as unjustly neglected.’ Cameron has never lacked admirers among his fellow poets – Roy Fuller, Geoffrey Grigson, Robert Graves, among others – but since his skilful, moving and quietly memorable poems have not been reprinted since 1957, they have not reached the wider audience which they deserve. |
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