Collected Poems: Volume One 1968-1997 - Couverture souple

Finch, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781726701 ISBN 13 : 9781781726709

Editeur : Seren, 2022

Synopsis

The two volumes of Peter Finch’s Collected Poems chart the course of a remarkable writing career. After reading Allen Ginsberg’s Howl as a young man Finch was inspired to become a poet, found the Second Aeon magazine and publishing house, and become a poetry entrepreneur, bringing to all these things an unquenchable vitality which set him apart in contemporary poetry.

This first volume makes available poems from long lost chapbooks, broadsheets and limited editions, as well as more conventionally published work. Here are concrete poems, sound poems, typographical poems, visual poems, poems in cartoon form or as crumpled photocopies. Whatever their form, Finch’s poems are always vivid and alive, pulsing with inventive energy. As he says himself, this is work which pushes the idea on until it breaks, flowers, or dissolves. It means that Finch’s writing can never be taken for granted.

The Collected Poems is also a restless exploration of the ideas behind the poems. It is a testament to the experimental in literature, to ways of doing it differently, and to an alternative modernist culture in Wales and Britain. Consequently, invaluably, they also open a window on a poetry scene seemingly lost from view to the twenty-first century. They remind us that there was interesting and vital writing happening outside of what has calcified into the canon of twentieth century British poetry. And that Finch was at its cutting edge with poets like Bob Cobbing and Henri Chopin Paul.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Finch is a poet, performer, psychogeographer and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff. He has been a publisher, bookseller, event organiser, literary agent and literary promoter. Until 2011 he was Chief Executive of Literature Wales. His writing career stretches over 50 years, from early poems in the sixties, through his magazine Second Aeon and its eponymous publisher, through sound, and visual and concrete poetry, via haiku and more conventional forms. He is also a prose writer. Edging The Estuary, the story of where Wales becomes England, appeared in 2013. His musical memoir The Roots of Rock From Cardiff To Mississippi And Back was published in 2016. Edging the City, will be published in 2022. Finch has also edited the Real series of alternative handbooks, literary rambles and guides to Britain’s conurbations. His own Real Cardiff (in four volumes) and Real Wales have appeared in this series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781726701
• ISBN 13: 9781781726709
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Éditeur: Taylor Andrew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible