Getting There - Softcover

Simpson, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853239576 ISBN 13: 9780853239574

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Matt Simpson’s poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Ireland and the Greek islands of Aegina and Leros. Simpson is not shy of big themes. Here are poems about identity, love, death, illness, friendship. Simpson can be tenderly elegiac as well as celebratory, meditative and also humorous.

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Review

... delightful... full of vigour and humour and a good deal of romantic restraint that gives a fine effect of deep feeling intelligently reined in. Anne Stevenson

Synopsis

Simpson's poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. Here are poems about identity, love, death, illness and friendship - tenderly elegiac as well as celebratory, seriously meditative and also humorous.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853239576
• ISBN 13: 9780853239574
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96