<p>Ida Affleck Graves was born in 1902 in India, and first published a book of poems in 1929 with Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press. Later a couple of slim volumes appeared, illustrated by her well-known engraver husband, Blair Hughes Stanton, and together they won a Venice Biennale Prize in 1937. Then in the 'fifties, novels and children's books appeared from Faber. In the intervening years she has continued to produce poems of a distinct character and style, now collected into a new book for Oxford Poets. Men, hospital, vegetables, animals, all come under this poet's altert irreverent, sometimes sad, always entertaining eye. This book is intended for usual readership for new poetry, and also perhaps the elder generation of readers.</p>

A Kind Husband (Oxford Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Graves, Ida Affleck

Poetry

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Penelope Shuttle is a law unto herself. She writes brilliant, funny, clever, sometimes outrageous, poetry. This lovely new collection shows her slightly disturbed, both by the coming of middle-age, and the growing-up of a daughter. This book is intended for women's studies, and readers of Penelope Shuttle (and her husband and co-author of prose, Peter Redgrove), and other poetry lovers.

Building a City for Jamie (The Oxford Poets)

SHUTTLE, Penelope

History & Criticism

Born in New York in 1960, Eva Salzman published her first book of poetry, The English Earthquake, in 1992. Bargain with the Watchman, her second book of poems, is daring with language, alternately sexy, sassy, outspoken, and clever. Her energy, vitality, and capacity for satire persist in bold, candid poetry, often disconcerting, always compelling and controlled. This selection includes a two sequences, one of which, Masques, is a subversive look at the Muses, seen in crossed-dressed guise.

Bargain with the Watchman (The ^AOxford Poets)

Salzman, Eva

Whirling is a new collection of poems by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who is much-traveled, and read, and admired equally in America, Britain, and his home country, Australia. He was awarded the distinguished Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award in 1995. His versatile use of language, including vivid Australian slang, is energetic and attractive, sometimes almost distracting his readers from a deeper seriousness and sadness. Whirling offers readers a glimpse into the world of a profound, wide-ranging, and eloquent poet.

Whirling (The Oxford Poets)

Wallace-Crabbe, Chris

Zoo is the second collection of poems by the successful young British writer, Tobias Hill, to be published by Oxford University Press. Hill's nocturnal, ferret-like eye and emotional stance somewhere between distance and intimacy lend the poems in his new collection a narrative, almost conversational feel. He follows the tracks of rivers and canals, listening to the sounds of the animals in their cages at the London Zoo. Along the way, he treats the reader to the impressions he picks up as if they were bits of interesting rubbish that signify something important.

Zoo (The ^AOxford Poets)

HILL, Tobias

British & Irish

Stephen Romer is unlike any other contemporary poet: the 'Tribute' paid in his long-awaited third collection is divided between homage and exaction. The homage is voluntary and finds several recipients, the exaction only one. Much turns on the question of idealization, experienced as emotional necessity in the face of love, that 'terrible crystallization'. Writing on Romer's earlier work, Thom Gunn remarked on the 'wide range of interests which open up the imagination to mythologies of the mind'. This new book constitutes a powerful amplification of those mythologies. This book is intended for poetry readers, students.

Stephen Romer:Tribute (Oxford Poets)

Romer, Stephen

Ida Affleck Graves, was first published as Ida Graves by Lenoard Woolf and the Hogarth Press; later (post-war) novels came from Faber. Then a long silence, during which she wrote but stuffed poems into a drawer, was broken by OUP's book of poems, A Kind Husband , published in 1994. The Calfbearer consists of nearly all new poems, written since then, as vigorous and moving as ever. The poems are emphatic and observant, on subjects such as her childhood, animals; and a few that look bravely on death. Ida Affleck Graves will be 97 in March 1999 This book is intended for poetry readers, and women's studies' courses.

The Calfbearer (The ^AOxford Poets)

The extraordinary mind of the novelist John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) has never been so revealingly displayed as in this decade of diary entries, for the most part previously unpublished. They begin in America, as Powys withdraws from twenty-five years of freelance lecturing, and end in Wales, with the completion of Owen Glendower.Day-to-day preoccupations - from the aesthetic to the anatomical - are here, along with reflections on his works in progress (books on philosophy, religion and literature, and five novels including A Glastonbury Romance), encounters with members of his family, and observations of rural life in upstate New York, in his beloved West Country, and in Wales. The entries also chart the complexities of his exceptional intimate life with Phyllis Playter, to form her biography as well as his autobiography. Skilfully edited from the vast original text, this selection distils the essence of Powys's life.

Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939

POWYS,John Cowper

Ballads of a Bogman

Sigerson Clifford

Trilogy

H.D.

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