Taken for Pearls: New Poems - Couverture souple

Curtis, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185411087X ISBN 13 : 9781854110879

Editeur : Seren, 1995

Synopsis

Taken for Pearls is the vibrant and various collection of poems by Tony Curtis, published in 1993.

Included are beautiful elegies for relatives and colleagues, as well as fascinating persona poems where characters from history reveal themselves to the reader. Also featured are fine occasional lyrics inspired by domestic incidents, as well as a series of love poems translated from the dialect of the Iraqi Marsh Arabs.

Throughout, the clarity and precision of the author's style allows his subjects to shine through. Poems that meditate on the darker moments of history, such as the 1993 Dylan Thomas Prize-winner 'Incident on a Hospital Train from Calcutta, 1944' are counterbalanced by the humour of 'The Captain's Diary', a long poem in the voice of an Edwardian golf club captain.

"Taken for Pearls is a powerful and sensuous new collection. Curtis's beautifully structured poems open up OP worlds and draw us in. These are poems to relish, to return to, to live with"
Helen Dunmore

"I see the colourful density of Tony Curtis's language drawing him towards the praise tradition"
Poetry Wales

Tony Curtis is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan where he directs an MPhil in Writing. He has published 26 books, including nine poetry collections. A selection of his poetry has recently been translated and published in Armenia. He is also the editor of several anthologies including After the First Death, a volume of war writing (2007).

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À propos de l'auteur

Tony Curtis is an established and acclaimed poet, novelist and critic. He has written and edited over forty books, most recently his debut novel ‘Darkness in the City of Light’, which was shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, and ‘Where the Birds Sing our Names’, an anthology of poems for the children’s charity Tŷ Hafan. He was Wales’s first Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan, where he developed and directed the M. Phil in Writing. He was awarded a Gregory Award in 1972; won the National Poetry Competition in 1983; and the Dylan Thomas Award for Spoken Poetry in 1993, judged by Dannie Abse and Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy. He had a Cholmondeley Award in 1998 and a D.Litt. in 2004. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185411087X
• ISBN 13: 9781854110879
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible