Description for The Orchid Boat
Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 215 x 4. Weight in Grams: 76.
The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these stories may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage mirroring our own perception of the world. It is a mix that can include Alexandria or China or Brighton or North Wales. These interwoven stories insist on the acceptance of contradictions and complexity in people and in life; a recognition characteristic of Harwood's poetry and shaped by his acknowledged influences: Gide, de Montherlant and Cavafy, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. In Harwood's poems the richest ... Read more
The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these stories may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage mirroring our own perception of the world. It is a mix that can include Alexandria or China or Brighton or North Wales. These interwoven stories insist on the acceptance of contradictions and complexity in people and in life; a recognition characteristic of Harwood's poetry and shaped by his acknowledged influences: Gide, de Montherlant and Cavafy, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. In Harwood's poems the richest ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Pr
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
75g
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907587535
SKU
V9781907587535
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Lee Harwood
Lee Harwood was born in 1939 and grew up in Surrey. He has spent the majority of the past 35 years living in Brighton. In a writing career that began in the early 1960s he has published over 20 volumes of poetry and prose, as well as translations of Tristan Tzara. His work has been widely anthologised and his Collected ... Read more
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