Selected Poems (Cape Poetry S.) - Hardcover

Redgrove, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224060147 ISBN 13: 9780224060141

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Since the 1950s, Peter Redgrove has written poems of imagination and power, so with this volume, a distillation of his work from "The Collector" (1959) to "Assembling a Ghost" (1996), the reader can begin to appreciate the elements of his alchemy.

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Review

"Redgrove is thunderously, exhilaratingly good" (Adam Thorpe)

"He is recognised today as one of the few poets capable of sustained rapture, a heirophant of alchemical mysteries, chronicler of sexual ecstasies, witness to sensual, synaesthetic delights beyond the reach of most of us" (Gerard Woodward)

"Redgrove's strengths are a clairvoyant creativity, glittering images and glittering risk...wonderful imaginative leaps of seeing, glancing epiphanies...or sustained surrealities which etch the surprisingness of the world" (Ruth Padel)

"I would use the old-fashioned term "genius" of Redgrove" (Anthony Thwaite)

Book Description

A selection of the finest works by a prize-winning British poet.

'Redgrove's language can light up the page' - Angela Carter

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224060147
• ISBN 13: 9780224060141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144