Ode to Didcot Power Station - Softcover

Kit Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780371063 ISBN 13: 9781780371061

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Few English poets have quite Kit Wright's range. From heart-felt lyricism to blistering satire, from the ribald to the grief-stricken, his poems cover almost everything life can throw at anyone, quite literally from the sublime to the ridiculous. Entertaining and engaging, writing with wit, panache and dazzling virtuosity, Kit Wright is both a seriously funny poet and a poignant chronicler of our times. His latest collection, published on his 70th birthday, shows him young at heart and writing, as always, from the heart of England.

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Ode to Didcot Power Station

Review:

A witty, brilliantly varied collection. --Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday [on Ode to Didcot Power Station]

Few poets are inclined, and fewer still are able, to muster the deliberately conspicuous formal accomplishment that marks light verse at its best. Wendy Cope, and before her Gavin Ewart, Philip Larkin occasionally and WH Auden are, with Wright, among its most distinctive modern exponents. --Sean O'Brien, Guardian , [on Ode to Didcot Power Station]

Sublime - Kit Wright, one of the best poets writing in Britain today. --Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian

His poetry is profoundly English in its combining of jaunty rhythms, comic rhymes - with subject-matter that is frequently bleak, blackly funny, and grimly personal. Bereavement, breakdown, failure (particularly in love), the "tears and terrors" or the quiet desperation beneath the surfaces of ordinary English life, a recurring note of grief or sympathy for victims and underdogs - and a persistent strain of remote and self-reproach - these are fairly constant in Wright's work, but so are the metrical ingenuity, the levity, and verbal panache. --Alan Jenkins, Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780371063
• ISBN 13: 9781780371061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96