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This collection of poems are by turns humorous, painful, spiky and eloquent, recalling Gareth Reeves's father, the poet and critic James Reeves. The collection culminates in a sequence of fourteen lyrics about his father's partial-sightedness. For Gareth Reeves the anxiety of influence is a filial matter. In other poems the quirks of memory stimulate a difficult truth-seeking - about an organ-playing chemistry teacher, an Oxford suicide and odd-ball, a black American con-artist, an expatriate Marxist Englishman in California, about teaching Vietnam draftees, about selling blood in pre-Junta Greece - whilst in poems such as "The Cockroach Sang in the Plane-tree", "High Life" and "Gaps" (about the poet Norman Cameron), the concern with mortality finds bleak and disconcerting expression.
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A collection of poems from Gareth Reeves
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Listening in / Gareth Reeves
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 52 pages. This collection of poems are by turns humorous, painful, spiky and eloquent, recalling Gareth Reeves's father, the poet and critic James Reeves. The collection culminates in a sequence of fourteen lyrics about his father's partial-sightedness. For Gareth Reeves the anxiety of influence is a filial matter. In other poems the quirks of memory stimulate a difficult truth-seeking - about an organ-playing chemistry teacher, an Oxford suicide and odd-ball, a black American con-artist, an expatriate Marxist Englishman in California, about teaching Vietnam draftees, about selling blood in pre-Junta Greece - whilst in poems such as "The Cockroach Sang in the Plane-tree", "High Life" and "Gaps" (about the poet Norman Cameron), the concern with mortality finds bleak and disconcerting expression. (SL#43). Seller Inventory # SL3071
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Manchester [England] : Carcanet Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 1857540115
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First Edition. Very good paperback copy; somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; vii, 52 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Reeves, Gareth (1947-). English poetry 20th century. English poetry. Fathers and sons Poetry. Poets, English 20th century. England Poetry. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 463914
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