Louring Skies: Poems 1977-1981 - Softcover

Radice, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856461539 ISBN 13: 9780856461538

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 1985

Synopsis

Radice's skill as a narrative poet is shown here in three extended sequences or poems. People is a series of touching portraits, concerned with illusion and disillusion: a variety of men and women reflect on their lives. Aeneas is a Vergilian descent into the underworld of a mental hospital. By contrast, Songs of a Schoolmaster is a ferocious satire, with a serious underlying purpose: the exploration of how people try to reconcile their sense of the sinfulness of the world with their love for it.

About this title

About the Author:

William Radice was born in 1951 and went to Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1970. After studying Bengali in London, he worked as a psychiatric nurse and as a school teacher. Since 1980 he has lived in Oxford, teaching and researching in the Faculty of Oriental Studies. His previous collections of poetry are `Eight Sections' (1974) and `Strivings' (1980). He has also published two Bengali translations, `The Stupid Tiger and Other Tales' (1981) and `Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems' (1985).

About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0856461539
• ISBN 13: 9780856461538
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72