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Selected Poems
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Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished & well loved poets Russia has ever

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From the 1950s onwards Peter Redgrove wrote poems of imagination & power; this volume is a distillation of his work from The Collector ...
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Representing the best of ten books & twenty years' work, Matthew Sweeney's Selected Poems is a magical mystery tour into his strange, unsettling world. Readers familiar with his poetry will be used to being led astray by his cordial, confiding wit, ambushed by his sinister twists, taken in by his intimate, untrustworthy narrators. Those who are coming to the work for the first time may feel a measure of alarm & disquiet at the way the poems shift
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For the past four decades, Robert Bringhurst has been writing some of the most powerful poetry in English. Distinguished by engaged & passionate curiosity, a wide-ranging intelligence & true originality, his poetry has sometimes been mistaken as austere & opaque. In fact, his work engages in ideas about the human condition, myth, the natural world, language & philosophy, & is unusual for having both a pared simplicity & profound wisdom. His watchword is clarity, & the elements he considers crucial to effective typography could just as easily be looked for ...
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For the past four decades, Robert Bringhurst has been writing some of the most powerful poetry in English. Distinguished by engaged & passionate curiosity, a wide-ranging intelligence & true originality, his poetry has sometimes been mistaken as austere & opaque. In fact, his work engages in ideas about the human condition, myth, the natural world, language & philosophy, & is unusual for having both a pared simplicity & profound wisdom. His watchword is clarity, & the elements he considers crucial to effective typography could just as easily be looked for ...
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Selected Poems

Taken from his first six books, these poems confirm Robert Crawford as a poet of exhilarating energy wedded to a constantly refreshing delight in nuanced language. Richly nourished by his background, Crawford's work is both lyrical and wry. Its intelligent humour and attunement to our technological present are impressively fused with a deepening note of spirituality. Unpredictable yet recognisable, these are poems of beguiling vitality.

While readers have praised Crawford's lovingly lyrical engagement with politics and science in such collections as A Scottish Assembly (1990) and Spirit Machines (1999), with gender in Masculinity (1996), or with environment and spirituality in The Tip of My Tongue (2003), what emerges in this Selected Poems
is a clearly growing commitment to the protean delight of poetry itself: a belief in its uniqueness as a medium which can subtly sound out complex relationships with heartfelt intelligence. In Crawford's language there is a confidently contemporary Scottish music that celebrates a kinship between the cherished, minute detail, local or personal, and the magnificently universal, 'As a candle-flame believes in the speed of light'.

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Taken from his first six books, these poems confirm Robert Crawford as a poet of exhilarating energy wedded to a constantly refreshing delight in nuanced language. Richly nourished by his background, Crawford's work is both lyrical & wry. Its intelligent humour & attunement to our technological present are impressively fused with a deepening note of spirituality. Unpredictable yet recognisable, these are poems of beguiling vitality.

While readers have praised Crawford's lovingly lyrical engagement with politics & science in such collections as A Scottish Assembly (1990) & Spirit Machines (1999), with gender in Masculinity (1996), or with environment & spirituality in The Tip of My Tongue (2003), what emerges in this Selected Poems is a clearly growing commitment to the protean delight of poetry itself: a belief in its uniqueness as a medium which can subtly sound out complex relationships with heartfelt intelligence. In Crawford's language there is a confidently contemporary Scottish music that celebrates a kinship between the cherished, minute detail, local or personal, & the magnificently universal, ' As a candle-flame believes in the speed of light'.

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