Even So: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Roper, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190455699X ISBN 13: 9781904556992

Publisher: Dedalus Press, 2008

Synopsis

"Even So reveals the extent to which Mark Roper's move from the UK to the Kilkenny countryside in 1980 has liberated his imagination and, by allowing him to report on lived, day-to-day experience, helped him to become an extraordinarily distinguished 'nature poet'-or, perhaps the better term, 'poetic naturalist'. Ireland's gift to the poet has been an environment that is still relatively unspoiled, and continues to permit ancient harmonious relationships between land-working humans and the birds, beasts, woodland, pools and pastures with which their lives interweave. Roper's gift to his adopted home, and to the great poetic tradition of 'nature writing' in these islands, is laid out here, in this wonderfully varied miscellany of new work and selections from his earlier volumes." - Carol Rumens, from the Introduction

About this title

About the Author

Mark Roper was born in Derbyshire in 1951 and has lived in Ireland since 1980. His collections include The Hen Ark (1990), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection; The Home Fire (1998) and Whereabouts (2005). A Gather of Shadow (2012) was joint winner of the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014, and was shortlisted, along with Bindweed (2018), for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Even So: New & Selected Poems, was published by Dedalus Press in 2008. He has also collaborated on 3 books with the photographer Paddy Dwan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dedalus Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190455699X
• ISBN 13: 9781904556992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172