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To Hell with Paradise: New and Selected Poems
Gareth Reeves
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Description for To Hell with Paradise: New and Selected Poems
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188. New and Selected Poems. 144 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 12. Weight: 188.
Made up of humorous and poignant poems, this collection meditates upon family, loss, and the landscape of memory. A wonderfully various and mature compilation, it also includes poems of quasi-dramatic monologues in the voice of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Those interested in contemporary poetry and the poetry of music will appreciate this compilation.
Made up of humorous and poignant poems, this collection meditates upon family, loss, and the landscape of memory. A wonderfully various and mature compilation, it also includes poems of quasi-dramatic monologues in the voice of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Those interested in contemporary poetry and the poetry of music will appreciate this compilation.
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
187g
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771445
SKU
V9781847771445
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Ref
99-12
About Gareth Reeves
Gareth Reeves studied at the University of Oxford and at Stanford University, where he held a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship. He is currently part-time Reader in English at Durham University, where he runs an MA creative writing course in poetry. Carcanet Press have published two previous collections of his poetry, Real Stories (1984) and Listening In (1993). He is also ... Read more
Reviews for To Hell with Paradise: New and Selected Poems
'The new poems [...] are a bravura performance - spare, powerful, contained and witty [...] The poet's ear has perfect pitch [...] His emotional reach into the realms of pain, loss, ageing and associated existential vertigo is all the more impressive for its formal minimalism and restraint. "Is there life after poetry?" he asks at one point: not ... Read more