Lifelines: Selected Poems

Forbes, Duncan

ISBN 10: 1904634656 / ISBN 13: 9781904634652

Published by Enitharmon Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lifelines: Selected Poems
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904634656
• ISBN 13: 9781904634652
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 180 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A lively and versatile poet, Duncan Forbes can deal in modes both comic and elegiac with life's events. With his eye for detail and strong understanding of traditions, he approaches the enduring themes of poetry in fresh and contemporary ways. His prize-winning poems have featured in numerous anthologies and have been broadcast on radio here and in the USA. This selection provides a welcome introduction to the range of his work. His poems have been widely published and have won him a growing readership as well as a Gregory Award, the A.V. Bowen Lyric Poem Prize, the TLS/Blackwells Prize and a Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. The poems here are drawn from five collections and span nearly forty years.

About the Author

Duncan Forbes was born in 1947, read English at Oxford, and has been Head of English at Wycombe Abbey School. His poems have appeared in the Observer, Poetry Review, Spectator and Times Literary Supplement, and have won him a Gregory Award. His first collection, August Autumn, was published by Secker & Warburg in 1984 and he won First Prize in the TLS / Blackwell's Poetry Competition in 1998.