The Aerial Noctiluca - Softcover

Forbes, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0900597305 ISBN 13: 9780900597305

Publisher: Poet & Printer, 1981

Synopsis

Peter Forbes was born at Burton-on-Trent, and grew up in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. He read Chemistry at Bristol University, and has held an odd assortment of jobs, including helping to build the M6, Assistant Works Chemist at a gypsum plaster factory, three very unsuccessful months as a professional musician in northern clubs, and the obligatory late-1960's drop-out phase. He has also worked in scientific publishing, and has edited illustrated reference books. He was a columnist for Vole magazine and has contributed articles to New Scientist, World Medicine and other magazines. His pamphlet collection The Aerial Noctiluca covers poems written 1976-1989, (Poet & Printer, 1981), was favourably reviewed: 'Writing of all-too-familiar themes . . . Peter Forbes demonstrates how completely such material can be transformed by invention and a little learning . . . In "We Have Abolished the Dark" he is able to give an unexpected imaginative depth and verbal texture to what is, after all, no more than common observation.' Roger Garfitt / Times Literary Supplement. '. . . the three strongest poems in the collection - the title poem, "Man of Letters" and "We Have Abolished the Dark" - are imaginative and compelling pieces.' John Gohorry / Albion 'Peter Forbes has an Audenesque penchant for strict lyrical forms . . . but can rise to individuality when dealing with specifics . . . (His) grotesquerie comes from close observation. Grotesque Jacobs are rare and interesting, more like true brothers of Esau . . . In any case they come out winners usually.' George Szirtes / Quarto

About this edition

• Publisher: Poet & Printer
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0900597305
• ISBN 13: 9780900597305
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 23