Crossing the frozen river: Selected poems (Paladin Books)

Literature & Fiction

Harwood, Lee

Poetry

Paladin

The White Room

Fulcrum Press

The sinking colony

Chanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada Poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood. Begun in 1963 with Tzara's enthusiastic approval, the translations are selected from the full range of Tzara's published works, from those informed with the rebellious impulse towards absolute artistic freedom and the 'destruction' of formal language, to those concerned with the human act of struggle, and with moral affirmation.    Also included is an introduction by Lee Harwood, a bibliography of Tzara's work, and Harwood's illuminating essay, "dada/My Heart Belongs to Dada."

Chanson Dada: Selected Poems

Tzara, Tristan

Coach House Pr

Poetry. This COLLECTED POEMS brings between a single set of covers all the work that the author wishes to preserve and also includes some recent unpublished work, which shows that his talent remains undimmed. The book covers 40 years of Lee Harwood's writing, and demonstrates a consistency in the author's fusing of a peculiarly English sensibility with more international styles of writing than have been the norm in recent times in the UK.

Collected Poems

Shearsman Books

Signed, soft cover book titled DREAM QUILT:30 Assorted Stories by Lee Harwood. (LL-16-top-R) rareviewbooks

Dream quilt: 30 assorted stories

Slow Dancer Press

To accompany Lee Harwood's new Selected Poems, we offer also this book-length collection of interviews with Harwood by his long-time friend and admirer, Kelvin Corcoran - himself also a Shearsman author. An invaluable opportunity to "hear" Harwood talking about poetry and about his own work.

Not the Full Story: Six Interviews With Lee Harwood

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Lee Harwood's work defines the poetry of an era that saw poetry itself at its most exciting, expansive and innovative. His achievement runs through the very core of these qualities and has enriched the possibilities of poetry through to the present. As a leading British poet well known for his unique but flexible voice, speaking in a variety of forms, from direct lyric to elaborate fictions, from notebook poems to conceptual found texts, from complex cut-ups to assembled fragments. A restless innovator across the decades he delighted in working in such a multiplicity of forms and with a disarming directness that appeared to escape whatever poetic rules may have been favoured on occasion. His voice is by turns gentle and erudite, erotic and funny, moving and even faux-sentimental. Discussions of contemporary poetry are left incomplete without recognition of his considerable achievements.From his earliest pamphlet title illegible (1965) to his last collection The Orchid Boat (2014), New Collected Poems assembles all the poems (and creative prose) Harwood published in pamphlet or book form, in broadly chronological order, fashioned upon the ordering of Harwood's own 2004 Collected Poems. Some excised poems have been restored and fugitive texts that appeared in an exclusive edition have been included. Brief uncollected material from the end of his career completes this rich body of work. 'This new collection is a generously considered gathering of resistant and supple fragments, hard evidence of a life truly lived. We are the beneficiaries of these dazzling transfusions of personality and circumstance. Of remembered and newly encountered detonations of affect. "The clarity of such moments," Harwood confesses, can never stay still, even when that seems to be the required task. Love moves and shifts. Through repeated acts of making, it coheres and continues.' -Iain Sinclair 'Lee Harwood's English is like American English in that it lacks a strong sense of possession. At the same time it has a pearly, soft-focus quality one rarely sees in American poetry [...] The "great" poetry I like best has this elf-effacing, translucent quality. Self-effacing not from modesty but because it is going somewhere and has no time to consider itself.' -John Ashbery 'Harwood's work returns to local habitations and names, the lives of family, elegies for friends, to direct communication among intimates. These vividly rendered, plain-style evocations, intercut with speculation and emotion, construct improvised holding environments where the home world and the safety of loved ones is primary' -Peter Robinson, Times Literary Supplement

New Collected Poems

The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these 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 material and tone is found in "the ordinary," and in The Orchid Boat this focus is thrown into even greater relief as he explores the power and weight of memories.

The Orchid Boat

Literary

Enitharmon Press

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