Making Arrangements - Softcover

Simpson, Matt

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ISBN 10: 0906427401 ISBN 13: 9780906427408

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1982

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In his first book-length collection, Matt Simpson looks back at his upbringing in Bootle, at family tensions in a close-knit Merseyside community with strong seafaring traditions. What emerges from his poems is a deep commitment to human values. With humour and honesty Matt Simpson faces the effects of death and loss – how they strengthen or weaken us, or leave us compromised. Matt Simpson's poetry is moving and distinctive. These poems have been widely published in magazines, and brought together here they form a remarkably unified collection.

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About the Author

Matt Simpson (1936-2009) was born in Bootle, Merseyside, to a working-class family with a long seafaring tradition, and educated at Bootle Grammar School. In 1955 he won a place at Cambridge, where he read English. For some years after graduating he taught English to overseas students in Cambridge, where he met his German wife, Monika Weydert, and where his two children were born. In 1964 he returned to Liverpool. During 1994, he was poet-in-residence for six months in Tasmania. He was a founder member and chair of the Windows Project for many years. He was also a noted children's poet, publishing two collections and appearing in hundreds of anthologies. His poetry collections included Making Arrangements (1982), An Elegy for the Galosherman: New & Selected Poems (1990) and Catching up with History (1995) from Bloodaxe.

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