Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list
- starting in Spring 2001 & continuing with publication dates each month for the rest of the year This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers connecting the backlist & the new titles within a single embracing cover solution A major reissue program is scheduled to include classic individual collections from each decade some of which have long been unavailable Wallace Stevens's Harmonium & Ezra Pound's Personae from the 1920s; WH Auden's Poems (1930); Robert Lowell's Life Studies from the 1950s; John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs & Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings from the 1960s; Ted Hughes's Gaudete & Seamus Heaney's Field Work from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann's Acrimony & Douglas Dunn's Elegies from the 1980s Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus Heaney's new collection Electric Light the relaunch is intended to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry & to celebrate a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern poetry since its inception in the 1920s