The Hand in the Well - Couverture souple

Barker, Sebastian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1870612221 ISBN 13 : 9781870612227

Editeur : Enitharmon Press, 1996

Synopsis

Barker's extremely readable long poem is 'worthy of mention in the company of Coleridge, Wordsworth and Nietzsche' - Robert Nye, "The Times". It may well be the most remarkable and successful philosophical poem of the last decade, if not the English Language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

After receiving an MA in Natural Science from Oxford University and an MA in English Literature from the University of East Anglia, Sebastian Barker worked as a carpenter, a fireman, and a cataloguer of Modern First Editions at Sotheby's. He then worked as a writer in residence in Berkshire and Lincolnshire, founded and directed literature festivals, and built a house in the Greek mountains. From 1988 to 1992 he was Chairman of The Poetry Society. He also worked for English P.E.N., the Nietzsche Society of Great Britain, and the English College Foundation in Prague.In the 1990s, Sebastian Barker published three works of poetry, Guarding the Border: Selected Poems (Enitharmon, 1992), The Dream of Intelligence (Littlewood Arc, 1992, a long poem based on Nietzsche's life and works), and The Hand in the Well (Enitharmon, 1996).A Hawthornden Fellow, he lives in Stamford Hill in northeast London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and in 2002 appointed successor of John Lehmann and Alan Ross as Editor of The London Magazine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Enitharmon Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1870612221
• ISBN 13: 9781870612227
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible