Slakki
New & Neglected Poems
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.Slakki is Old Norse for a shallow depression among hills: 'Not much of a valley. A Slack,' writes Roy Fisher, with typical self effacement. But appearances are deceptive where this Slakki is concerned. Opening with new poems written during his 80s - since his Costa-shortlisted collection Standard Midland (2010) - the book's second section is a gathering of uncollected poems mainly written during the 1960s, though occasionally foreshadowed later in the previous decade, while the third part contains poems, similarly uncollected, written in the 1950s.'I describe the poems in sections two and three of this…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78037-323-2
- EAN: 9781780373232
- Produktnummer: 20736205
- Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 94 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 309 KB
Über den Autor
¿Roy Fisher has published over 30 poetry books, and has been the subject of numerous critical essays and several studies, including The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Roy Fisher, edited by Peter Robinson and John Kerrigan (Liverpool University Press, 2000) and The Unofficial Roy Fisher, edited by Peter Robinson (Shearsman Books, 2010). He has published four books with Bloodaxe, including Standard Midland (2010), which was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2010 (2012) and Slakki: New & Neglected Poems (2016). Born in 1930 in Handsworth, Birmingham, he retired as Senior Lecturer in American Studies from Keele University in 1982, and now lives in Derbyshire.
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