Collected Poems
Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. His politically edgy, cuttingly colloquial, muscular poetry poetry shifted territory with time, from rural Yorkshire, America and London to the war-ravaged Balkans and Eastern Europe (before and after Communism). His early books span a transition from a preoccupation with land and myth to his later engagement with urban Britain and the politics of radical disaffection. The pivotal work marking this shift was his long poem Fox Running (1980), brought to recent attention when an archive recording of him reading it…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78037-433-8
- EAN: 9781780374338
- Produktnummer: 29199707
- Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 647 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'159 KB
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Ken Smith ¿(1938-2003) was born in Rudston, East Yorkshire, the son of an itinerant farm labourer. He lived in Leeds, Exeter, London and the US, and was writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1985-87, which prompted a poetry collection, Wormwood (1987), and Inside Time (1989), his book about imprisonment, Wormwood Scrubs and the men he met there. He was working in Berlin when the Wall came down, writing a book about East and West Berlin: this turned into Berlin: Coming in from the Cold (1990).
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