Ten British Poets

Literature & Fiction

Larkin, Peter

Selerie, Gavin

Poetry

Spectacular Diseases

Poetry. "Gavin Selerie weaves together richly colored threads taken from Gothic storytelling, Irish politics and literature, feminist heroic history and the fascinating development of popular theatre. His dazzling kaleidoscope uses a varied sequence of verse forms: the effect is oral, brash, sparky, and yet grounded in a deep knowledge and love of the highest poetic tradition. LE FANU'S GHOST reveals, in a most original way, the wonderful cross-pollination of high and low, notorious and neglected, oral and literary, Gaelic and Faery lore, Ireland and England, and will give great pleasure to readers"-Marina Warner. "Selerie's nonfictional-fictional genealogical poetic quest into the life, friends, and relations of the Anglo-Irish author of Gothic thrillers, such as Carmilla and Uncle Silas, sometimes recalls the procedures of Melville in Moby-Dick, particularly the extracts supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian. Every contingent sound-bite of information has been arranged to perfection"-Susan Howe.

Le Fanu's Ghost

Five Seasons Press

British poet Gavin Selerie's "Roxy" -- the name a diminutive of Roxana, Roxolana, Roxena, type-names which denote a sultry, ambitious woman, originally an oriental queen -- is a kaleidoscope of female presences, filtered through a male consciousness. She is a film star, an oriental or Egyptian queen, a romance novelist, a fashion model, an office worker, a sweatshop seamstress, a night-club hostess. She is a hedonist and a puritan. Such types emerge and disappear in a continual process of redefinition.

Roxy

West House Books

Danse Macabre

Halsey, Alan

Corcoran, Kevin

Annwn, David

Music's Duel gathers work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material, some previously unpublished. Placed together for the first time, these texts form an extended record of self and world, their focus twisting to reflect thought and language process. From a complex weave the book yields clarity and beauty, as in the treatment of landscape, death and desire. It is possible to see a development from heady, romantic pastoral to more satirical, closely-wrought urban texts, although continuities of concern and technique are evident. Distinguished by metaphysical wit and wordplay, Selerie's poetry excites both ear and eye. Genres and devices are torqued so as to enable the lyric tradition to operate within a fragmented sound and social context.

Music's Duel. New and Selected Poems 1972-2008

Shearsman Books

Collected Sonnets

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