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Careful What You Wish for
Peter Sansom
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Description for Careful What You Wish for
Paperback. The latest collection by an award-winning poet, editor and publisher. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival - Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and it is Camus, St-Exupery and Ken Dodd. Also it is Robert Lowell in a canal boat just outside Mirfield, not to mention family poems and love and tennis poems, and the biggest come-back in golf history, as told by the caddy. 'Entertaining and frequently something more', Carol Ann Duffy said of Sansom's first book. This sixth Carcanet collection is ... Read more
A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival - Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and it is Camus, St-Exupery and Ken Dodd. Also it is Robert Lowell in a canal boat just outside Mirfield, not to mention family poems and love and tennis poems, and the biggest come-back in golf history, as told by the caddy. 'Entertaining and frequently something more', Carol Ann Duffy said of Sansom's first book. This sixth Carcanet collection is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
89g
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847772039
SKU
V9781847772039
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Peter Sansom
PETER SANSOM has made 'a sort of living' as a poet for nearly thirty years. He has been Company Poet for Marks & Spencer and Prudential, and Fellow in Poetry at both Leeds and Manchester Universities. He is co-director of The Poetry Business in Sheffield, editor of The North magazine and Smith/Doorstop Books. Carcanet publish Peter's five previous books of ... Read more
Reviews for Careful What You Wish for
His writing gains its vitality from the tension between the desire to remember and the necessity of moving on. "Poetry Review"