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Selected Poems
Roy Fuller
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Description for Selected Poems
Paperback. On the centenary of Fuller's birth, this generous selection, introduced by John Fuller, the poet's son, and with an afterword by Neil Powell, Fuller's biographer, brings to a new generation of readers the work of one of the essential twentieth-century poets. Editor(s): Fuller, John. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 326. 180 pages. Editor(s): Fuller, John. On the centenary of Fuller's birth, this generous selection, introduced by John Fuller, the poet's son, and with an afterword by Neil Powell, Fuller's biographer, brings to a new generation of readers the work of one of the essential twentieth-century poets. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 21. Weight: 326.
From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids, the 'vivid allegorical / Reality of gun and hangar', to the consolatory wisdom of the Last Poems of 1993, Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with Fuller's tolerant humour and acute eye, reveal depths and dissonances from which a civilised life may be created: the unremarkable year 'of painting the shed ...Is also that of harmonies / That have made one's life and art for evermore off-key'. On the centenary of Fuller's ... Read more
From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids, the 'vivid allegorical / Reality of gun and hangar', to the consolatory wisdom of the Last Poems of 1993, Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with Fuller's tolerant humour and acute eye, reveal depths and dissonances from which a civilised life may be created: the unremarkable year 'of painting the shed ...Is also that of harmonies / That have made one's life and art for evermore off-key'. On the centenary of Fuller's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771216
SKU
V9781847771216
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99-50
About Roy Fuller
Roy Fuller was born in Failsworth, Lancashire in 1912 and grew up in Blackpool. On leaving school, he trained as a solicitor. He married in 1936, and his son John was born the following year. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and then spent his working life with the Woolwich Building Society, of which he ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Poems
'For all his self-deprecation, he had an unquenchable impulse to marvel at things - to rejoice in the merely human, and to let the sense of approaching death feel part of life.'
Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion