A Place to Stand: Poems 1969-76

Literature & Fiction

Holmes, PHILIP

Poetry

Anvil Press

When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen both as a secular oratorio, reflecting the Greek heritage and the country's revolutionary spirit, and also as a kind of autobiography, in which the spiritual roots of the poet's very individual sensibility are set in the wider philosophical context of the Greek tradition. In his evocation of eternal Greece, his vision of the war and its aftermath, and his concluding celebration of human life, Elytis is a true voice of our age A- a deeply personal lyric poet who speaks for humanity at large.

The Axion Esti

ELYTIS, Odysseus

Elytes, Odysseas

Tony Connor left school at fourteen and worked as a textile designer in Manchester for many years. He finds his poems among the affections and troubles of everyday experience rather than in the esoteric or the literary. Yet he possesses a subtle sense of his own making: he is well aware that poems are formed by the mind pondering what was or what might be. From this interplay of experience and imagination he makes poems that are remarkable for their precision, their wry humour, their dramatic flair and their easy grasp of large issues. "New and Selected Poems" contains poems from four of his five previously published collections, together with a large group of new poems written in the United States.

Tony Connor: New and Selected Poems

Tony Connor

In "Later On" F.T. Prince brings together three contrasting long poems written since 1980: "The Yuan Chen Variations", which are inspired by the Chinese T'ang Dynasty poet Po Chu-i, "His Dog and Pilgrim", an account of the legend of St Rock told from his dog's point of view, and "A Byron-Shelley Conversation". F.T. Prince's "Collected Poems" appeared in 1979. 'There is hardly a single poem in it that is not notable, always for its sheer felicity of verbal cadence, frequently for a memorable, quite personal peculiarity of phrasing, its fresh clarity of vision, its restrained yet poignant expression of emotion', wrote David Gascoyne, while John Ashbery commented that 'Undervalued at home and abroad, F.T. Prince ranks with Auden and Spender as one of the major English poets of his generation'.

Later On

Prince, F.T.

The Interrupted Dream

DOOLEY, TIM

Mean time

Duffy, Carol Ann

“Dennis O’Driscoll . . . is one of the most interesting poets now writing in English.”—Adam Kirsch, Slate"Dennis O'Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work...Some of his poems have already achieved the status of classics."—Poetry Ireland Review "O'Driscoll's mind...ruminates on experience with alacrity, humility, and an unwillingness to pontificate. His talent -- which could equally grace a novel -- should stand the test of time."—Poetry Review"His terrain is, in effect, without borders: mordant, open, sharp, generous, and sad."—The Guardian "[O'Driscoll's] poems dance deftly on the tongue.... The collection offers a cornucopia of visual and aural delights, a Whitmanic appreciation of both nature and human creation that nevertheless recognizes the global dangers posed by the latter.... O'Driscoll's U.S. debut is a bracing introduction to a poet whose work American readers have gone without for too long."—Library JournalDennis O’Driscoll’s poetry is invigorating, grounded, and modern, with an ear attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life in a “globalized” Ireland. When Reality Check was published last year in the United Kingdom, it was named one of the top ten books of 2007 by The Independent of London.O’Driscoll, who tours regularly in the United States, excels at stripping away stereotypes. He incorporates the language of the business world into his poetry, often to comic effect. His job as a civil servant for nearly forty years, “a lifetime’s fug of arbitrations, ordinances, inter-agency liaisons,” has made him privy to the intricacies of bureaucracy, diplomacy, and commerce, and has given him a knack for transforming timeless themes through “workaday words” and present-day concerns.Lean on the green recycle binin the yard where roses run amok,scent intensified by last night’s rain . . .Rest on the laurels of your elbows.Consent to mind and body goingtheir ways amicably, a trial separation.Dennis O’Driscoll, author of ten books, is one of Ireland’s most popular poets and critics. According to Poetry Review, he is “one of the best-read men in the Western world.”

Reality Check

O'Driscoll, Dennis

In Witness

Shaw, Robert B.

Educational futures III: Change and reality : views toward educational reform--another eight-year study, the Mankato Wilson story

Don E. Glines

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