This New Selected Poems of John Ash brings together selections from all of Ash’s published volumes, from Casino (1978) to In the Wake of the Day (2010). It departs from, and builds on, his Selected Poems (1996) to give, for the first time, an overview of Ash’s entire career, as he moved from Manchester to the US and Istanbul, and reveal the extent and variety of his poetic interests, as well as the consistency of his poetic voice. In doing so, it reinforces the idea that Ash may in some ways have fulfilled the title bestowed on him by Poetry magazine, ‘the best English poet of his generation’.
