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Lifesaving Poems
Anthony Wilson
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Description for Lifesaving Poems
Paperback. The latest addition to Bloodaxe's range of books appealing to a broad reader-ship, Lifesaving Poems has grown from Anthony Wilson's popular poetry blog into a highly personal anthology. Editor(s): Wilson, Anthony. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he asked, twenty, fifty, a hundred, or more? Lifesaving Poems is a way of trying to answer that question. Giving himself the constraint of choosing no more than one poem per poet, Anthony began copying poems out, one at a time, as it were for safekeeping. He asked himself: was the poem one he could recall being moved by the moment he first read it? And: ... Read more
Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he asked, twenty, fifty, a hundred, or more? Lifesaving Poems is a way of trying to answer that question. Giving himself the constraint of choosing no more than one poem per poet, Anthony began copying poems out, one at a time, as it were for safekeeping. He asked himself: was the poem one he could recall being moved by the moment he first read it? And: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780371573
SKU
V9781780371573
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Ref
99-96
About Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson is a poet, writing tutor and Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. His anthology Lifesaving Poems - based on his popular blog - is published by Bloodaxe in 2015. His own books of poetry are Riddance (Worple Press, 2012), Full Stretch: Poems 1996-2006 (Worple Press, 2006), Nowhere Better Than This (Worple Press, 2002) and How Far From ... Read more
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