The memoirs of the blind poet, John Heath-Stubbs, who celebrates his 75th birthday in July 1993. By means of amenuensis, he has written an irreverent, observant and often outspoken autobiography, doubling as a history of his literary times. He tells of his Oxford days with contemporaries Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, and of his experiences with the Soho poets, artists and Bohemians, many of whom have become famous, such as Dylan Thomas, Tambimuttu and Samuel Beckett. His story is also one of religious re-conversion, the struggle to write good poems, and an account of his increasing blindness.

Hindsight: An Autobiography

Heath-Stubbs, John

Biographies & Memoirs

Hodder&Stoughton

Collected poems, 1943-1987

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Carcanet Press Ltd.

John Heath-Stubbs: Selected Poems

Poetry

Small 4to. 104 + 2 pages. 6.4" x 9.9" brown cloth boards, gilt spine lettering, in beige DJ.

Artorius: A heroic poem in four books and eight episodes

Enitharmon Press

Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Pope, Alexander

History

Nabu Press

Selected Poems (Carcanet Classics)

Carcanet Classics

John Heath-Stubbs’s Collected Poems 1943-1987 won universal critical acclaim and the award of the 1989 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In this new volume Heath-Stubbs shows again his great learning and versatility in poems which speak of a lasting concern for animals, birds and flowers and which pay tribute to writers and musicians of earlier ages  Blake, Byron, Schumann and Webern  and to the poet’s contemporary and friend Charles Causley. There is a characteristic humour, too, in The Art of Lying in the Bath’, in advice To One Going to Paris’ and in an enchanting trio of poems for children. The collection is complemented by the brilliant drawings of Noel Connor, whose previous collaborations with Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin have been widely admired.

The Game of Love and Death

Enitharmon Pr

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