Selected Poems 1956-1996 - Softcover

Thwaite, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900564556 ISBN 13: 9781900564557

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 1997

Synopsis

These poems, written over a period of forty years, confirm Anthony Thwaite as one of the most assured, interesting and enjoyable poets of his generation, whose work recognises conflicting forces. There is the need for roots and the desire to get away: there is the urge to speak plainly, and the impulse to speak through other voices. These are the poems of a traveller and explorer - of the contemporary world and of the past - who brings back tales which tell us more each time we read them.

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Thwaite was born in 1930. He spent his childhood in Yorkshire, the USA (1940-44) and Somerset. After national service in Libya he read English at Oxford. He then married and went to Japan for two years, where he taught English Literature at Tokyo University. Since then he has been a BBC radio producer, literary editor of the Listener and the New Statesman, co-editor of Encounter, and in 1986 was chairman of the Booker Prize judges. He is a literary executor of Philip Larkin and the editor of his Collected Poems. He is a regular reviewer for The Guardian and other journals. In 1990 he was made an OBE for services to poetry.

Review:

After High Table (oxford C. 1870)
Ali Ben Shufti
Arabic Script
At Birth
At Dunwich
At Marychurch (philip Henry Gosse, 1857)
At The Frontier Post: Om
At The Indus
The Bonfire
Buzzards Above Cyrene
By The Sluice
Called For
Changing Ties
Cicadas In Japan
Cockroach Story
Coming Back From Kawau
The Dancing Foxes
Death Of A Rat
Deus Absconditus
Dust
Education
Elegiac Stanzas
Elsewhere
Entry
Essays In Criticism
Evacuation: 1940
Final Verdict Tours
For George Macbeth
For Louis Macneice
From The Villa Massoni (ouida 1909)
Gairaigo
A Girdle Round The Earth
Gone
Great Foreign Writer Visits Age-old Temple
Hedgehog
Hiroshima: August 1985
Imagine A City
Inscriptions
Interpreter
Lesson
Letter From Tokyo
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 1
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 10
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 11
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 12
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 2
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 3
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 4
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 5
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 6
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 7
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 8
The Letters Of Synesius: Letter 9
Marriages
Maturity: 1944
Memoir
A Message From Her (mary Ellen Meredith, 1861 Modern Love 5)
Messages From Government House (james Ramsey, Marq. 1848-56)
Monologue In The Valley Of The Kings
Mr. Cooper
Multiplied
Night Thoughts
Object Lessons
On Dejima: 1845
Passing On
Patterns
Philip Larkin In New Orleans
Points
A Portion For Foxes
Potter
The Procession
The Property Of The Executors
Recreational Leave
Rescue Dig
The Return
September 3rd 1939: Bournemouth
Shock
Sideshows
Sigma
Simple Poem
Snake In Autumn
Snakes (virginia, 1940)
Soldiers Plundering A Village
Soseki (london: December 1902)
Thomas
To My Unborn Child
Together, Apart
Trebonianus Gallus
White Snow
Worm Within
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1900564556
• ISBN 13: 9781900564557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136