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Going Out
Anthony Thwaite
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Description for Going Out
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Now that he is eighty-four, Anthony Thwaite says that Going Out is likely to be the last book of poems he publishes in his lifetime, and that the title is apt. But the words are wistful, even playful, and that is true of some of the book's contents. The poems range over times and places, commemorating friends (especially the poet Peter Porter), and draw on memories, hard-won faith, self-questioning. As Michael Frayn has put it, Thwaite 'writes with simplicity and precision about difficult and ambiguous things, the complexity and unceasingness of the world, the vastness and richness of the past, ... Read more
Now that he is eighty-four, Anthony Thwaite says that Going Out is likely to be the last book of poems he publishes in his lifetime, and that the title is apt. But the words are wistful, even playful, and that is true of some of the book's contents. The poems range over times and places, commemorating friends (especially the poet Peter Porter), and draw on memories, hard-won faith, self-questioning. As Michael Frayn has put it, Thwaite 'writes with simplicity and precision about difficult and ambiguous things, the complexity and unceasingness of the world, the vastness and richness of the past, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
92g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910392003
SKU
V9781910392003
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Ref
99-44
About Anthony Thwaite
Anthony Thwaite has been a university teacher, a radio producer, and a literary editor. His first collection came out in 1953, and Enitharmon published his Collected Poems in 2007 and Late Poems in 2010. He is one of Philip Larkin's literary executors and editors. He is married to the biographer Ann Thwaite and lives in Norfolk.
Reviews for Going Out
'This is spectacular poetry. It deserves to be read: good readers deserve to read it.' The Times