Selected Poems Chosen by Ruth Fainlight - Softcover

Sillitoe, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993331149 ISBN 13: 9780993331145

Publisher: Dare-Gale Press, 2020

Synopsis

Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) was an award-winning poet and one of the leading British novelists of the twentieth century. He wrote more than fifty books, establishing an enduring critical and popular success with his 1958 novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which set a new direction in writing about the reality of working-class lives in post-war Britain. His stories of working-class life earned him a reputation as one of the "angry young men" of a new generation of writers. His poetry, however, revealed his own inner life in a way that he found impossible to do in fiction. Presented here are Sillitoe's poems that present the world as he saw it. Using a storyteller's skill, he brought to life the people and places that captured his imagination and took him on a search for meaning. Fascist graffiti scrawled by an unseen hand on a wall in Irkutsk, three sons standing in silence by the grave of their father--this is Sillitoe's world as seen with his poet's eye, a vision that is at the same time clear and precise, politically engaged, fiercely intelligent, and deeply personal. Drawn from his eight volumes of poetry, this selection has been chosen by his wife, the poet Ruth Fainlight.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) was an English writer and poet known for his depictions of working-class life. His novels include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's foremost poets. She has published more than sixteen books of poetry, including New and Collected Poems and Somewhere Else Entirely. She was married to Alan Sillitoe for over fifty years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dare-Gale Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993331149
• ISBN 13: 9780993331145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Fainlight Ruth