Lives the Sea Had Left: The Collected Poems: The Collected Poems of Ted Walker - Couverture souple

Walker, Ted

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3982916410 ISBN 13 : 9783982916415

Editeur : RedLines Press, 2026

Synopsis

This long-awaited definitive edition brings together, for the first time, all the poetry Ted Walker published during his lifetime, with the exception of his poetry for children. He published seven single volumes, from Fox on a Barn Door (1965) to Mangoes on the Moon (1999). Many of his poems were first published in The New Yorker.
Critical introductions to each collection and notes that illuminate the history and development of the poems make this the essential volume for admirers of Walker’s poetic work.
Walker's poetry won praise for its nature imagery; through the lives of animals, it explores aspects of the human condition such as fatherhood, loneliness and human labour in poems including ‘By the Saltings’, ‘Moth’ and ‘Ox’.
His fascination with the coast — the shingle and sand of Lancing beach and the Adur estuary at Shoreham — is best explained by Walker's childhood: he grew up at a time when they were all strictly off-limits, mined and guarded against a possible invasion. In his autobiographical The High Path he writes, “This, then, was what Peace was: to stand and gaze at the unsinister sea; to pick up a streamer of bladder-wrack and watch it lift with the wind.”
His poetry also explores grief and loss, while the later volumes broaden their geographical horizons beyond Sussex to the Welsh countryside, Spain and Australia.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ted Walker was born on 28 November 1934 in Lancing, West Sussex, the son of a carpenter from Birmingham with family roots in the village of Shrawley in rural Worcestershire. Walker was educated at Steyning Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read modern languages. In addition to his poetry, Ted Walker was a travel writer, autobiographer, short-story writer, and radio and television comedy dramatist. He received a number of literary awards, including the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award and the Society of Authors Travel Bursary.His autobiographical works include The High Path (1982), which won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, and The Last of England (1993).Ted Walker died in Valencia, Spain, on 19 March 2004.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: RedLines Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3982916410
• ISBN 13: 9783982916415
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Éditeur: Walker Edward J.
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