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The Golden Mean
John Glenday
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Description for The Golden Mean
Paperback. The new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-shorlisted poet John Glenday. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
After the success of Grain (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, poetry's most prestigious international award) John Glenday returns with The Golden Mean. Glenday's poetry - once something of a closely guarded secret - now has many devotees, and this new book shows why: Glenday's mastery of the short translucent lyric and his unashamed and direct concern with matters of the spirit, of love, of human nature and natural law - means he can often read as a Spanish or East European poet in immaculate translation. But for all its apparently weightless and aerodynamic grace, Glenday's poetry ... Read more
After the success of Grain (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, poetry's most prestigious international award) John Glenday returns with The Golden Mean. Glenday's poetry - once something of a closely guarded secret - now has many devotees, and this new book shows why: Glenday's mastery of the short translucent lyric and his unashamed and direct concern with matters of the spirit, of love, of human nature and natural law - means he can often read as a Spanish or East European poet in immaculate translation. But for all its apparently weightless and aerodynamic grace, Glenday's poetry ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447253914
SKU
V9781447253914
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Ref
99-50
About John Glenday
John Glenday was born in Broughty Ferry in 1952. His first collection, The Apple Ghost, won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Grain was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Ted Hughes Award.
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