Selected Poems - Hardcover

Martin Richards

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190805896X ISBN 13: 9781908058966

Publisher: Penned in the Margins, 2015

Synopsis

Retirement to the island of Anglesey, combined with his final illness, led to a late flowering in the poetry of Martin Richards. Attentive to the passing seasons and deeply connected to place, these are poems schooled in the art of haiku. With delicacy and precision, they blend the steady pace of island life with the natural world's wonders - grasshoppers falling silent in the garden, bitterns invisible in reeds - to touch on the mysteries of human relationships; the bonds of friendship, family and inheritance.A prolific translator of European poets as well as of the ancient Chinese and Japanese masters, Richards forged a style that combines these riches with a distinctively Welsh air.

This volume gathers the final moments of a lifetime's poetic endeavour.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Richards was born in Liverpool in 1950, to a Welsh father and a German-Armenian mother. He was educated at Cambridge and Leeds Universities, before becoming an English teacher. The one collection of poems printed in his lifetime was the mountain / deep as a lake / yes (1980). In 2010 he passed away, leaving behind the wealth of unpublished poems selected in this volume.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 190805896X
• ISBN 13: 9781908058966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Sarah Howe