To Hell with Paradise: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Gareth Reeves

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847771440 ISBN 13: 9781847771445

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

To Hell with Paradise draws on Gareth Reeves's Carcanet collections Real Stories (1984) and Listening In (1993) to which he has added new work. Distance occasioned many of the poems in Real Stories: in California, where Reeves lived in the 1970s, he wrote of England, in England of California. But distance is not solely geographical: mortality and loss find expression in the new poems, and in the sequence from Listening In recalling the author's father, poet and critic James Reeves. Most intensely, they are explored in the selection from 'Nuncle Music', a vivid psycho-drama in the voice of Dmitri Shostakovich.

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About the Author

Gareth Reeves studied at the University of Oxford and at Stanford University, where he held a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship. He is currently part-time Reader in English at Durham University, where he runs an MA creative writing course in poetry. Carcanet Press have published two previous collections of his poetry, Real Stories (1984) and Listening In (1993). He is also the author of two books on T.S. Eliot, a book on poetry of the 1930s (with Michael O'Neill), and many essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, American and Irish poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847771440
• ISBN 13: 9781847771445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144