Dicing for Pearls

Reed, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 1870612809 / ISBN 13: 9781870612807

Published by Enitharmon Press, 1990

About this Item

Some fading to covers otherwise in GOOD condition.

Seller Inventory # 34088

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dicing for Pearls
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870612809
• ISBN 13: 9781870612807
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

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 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.