The Captain's Tower: Poems for Bob Dylan at 70 - Softcover

Phil Bowen; Damian Furniss; David Woolley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185411560X ISBN 13: 9781854115607

Publisher: Seren, 2011

Synopsis

Foreword by Ronnie Wood

Unbelievably, Bob Dylan was 70 in 2011. The Captain s Tower is a birthday present anthology of poems concerned with Dylan s life, his work, and his cultural impact. One of the most distinguished lyricists of the post-war period, Dylan has entertained and inspired poets, writers generally and millions of ordinary fans with the imagery, wit and technique of his writing, be it in songs of love, protest, faith or pure Dylan-ness.

In this book poets answer back in a response to Dylan s creativity, capacity to inspire and his enormous influence on culture and writing.

With poems by Allen Ginsberg, Lachlan Mackinnon, Glyn Maxwell, Matthew Sweeney, Jeremy Reed, Linda Chase, Linda France, Mark Ford, Roger McGough, Roddy Lumsden, Paul Muldoon, Simon Armitage, Caroline Bird, Peter Finch, Luke Wright

About this title

About the Author

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. He moved to London at twenty-four, and now works as the Poetry Librarian at the Saison Poetry Library at the South Bank Centre. He has published poems in a variety of magazines and in four collections, most recently Speculatrix (2014). His plays Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and Mudflats have been performed in London and Liverpool. Chris McCabe is currently writing a series of books about London cemeteries, which began with In the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery (2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Seren
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185411560X
• ISBN 13: 9781854115607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss, David Woolley