Dicing for Pearls - Softcover

Reed, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870612809 ISBN 13: 9781870612807

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 2002

Synopsis

This is a selection of thirty poems. Kathleen Raine described his "Selected Poems" (1987) as the work of 'the most imaginatively gifted poet since Dylan Thomas'. Seamus Heaney referred to Reed's 'rich and careful writing', and David Lodge drew attention to his 'remarkable lyric gift'. "Dicing for Pearls" - An emerald lives in the fern's heart. Stillshine like this pool in the valley where a deer hallucinates.

About this title

About the Author

Jeremy Reed's range and originality as a poet and novelist have been acclaimed by many reviewers, including J.G. Ballard, Seamus Heaney and David Lodge. He has published many volumes of poetry, as well as a Selected Poems (Penguin), and he has received the Eric Gregory and Somerset Maugham Awards. He has translated Montale, Novalis and Cocteau, and written critical studies of Rimbaud, de Sade and Lautreamont. Reed is also a noted writer on pop culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870612809
• ISBN 13: 9781870612807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38