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Peter Sansom - Lanyard, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Lanyard

Av Peter Sansom

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Beskrivning
'On First Hearing Careless Whisper' is one of several poems in this compelling new collection that put time on pause to look at life through art, whether 1980s pop, or painting, or a congeries of writers including Emily Brontë, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, D.H. Lawrence, Alice Munro, Fernando Pessoa and the New York Poets ... and several of Sansom's beloved contemporaries.But keenly-observed family life is at the centre of this warm, witty and moving book by one of our best-loved poets and teachers. Sansom evokes working-class life in the early and mid-twentieth century, through the 1970s of vinyl and tie-dye, and into the uncertain present day. We travel in his first car, and meet roofers, walkers, darts players and a pigeon fancier. We see Sheffield as it is seldom portrayed. His elegies celebrate Gerard Benson, children's poet and founder of Poems on the Underground; and Sarah Maguire, poet, translator and anthologist. All human life, and death, are to be found here. There is laughter and tears and a vivid evocation of a world that survives thanks to poems like these.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-06-30
  • Mått: 135 x 216 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 108 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 72
  • Förlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781800170209
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Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. Carcanet published his first book in 1990. Among more recent titles are Selected Poems and Careful What You Wish For, which won him a Cholmondeley Award in 2016. He has also published Writing Poems (Bloodaxe, 1994, new edition 2024). For ten years Peter taught the MA Poetry at Huddersfield University, and he has been Fellow in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester Universities and Company Poet with M&S and The Prudential. With Ann Sansom he is one of the directors of The Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North and SmithDoorstop Books.

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'Long-suppressed anger morphs into characteristic deadpan humour, a difficult trick to accomplish without appearing trite - while he's no formalist, Sansom is as highly-skilled as any contemporary poet. Peter Sansom's poetry... is full of gentle, bittersweet and funny moments, the work of a poet and person whose outlook on life is immensely engaging, engaged and likeable.'Matthew Paul, The Friday Poem

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