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TouchwoodDick Davis
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Nov 1997) 9780856462696 Out of Stock
Touchwood is Dick Davis’s first collection since Devices and Desires, his New and Selected Poems (1989), which Wendy Cope selected as her book of the year in the Sunday Times, calling it ‘the year’s most underrated poetry book’. The clarity and elegance of his lyrics, intimate and personal in tone, combined with his precise yet natural language, is undiminished. But there is a more relaxed feel to the book with the presence of epigrams and satirical poems like ‘A Translator’s Nightmare’ in which the poet-translator is confronted in the underworld by the poets he translated or failed to translate. The book concludes with a brilliant, funny and moving retelling of the story of Esther and Mordecai.
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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