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Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems
Stephen Romer
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Description for Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems
Paperback. In Set Thy Love in Order Stephen Romer's poetry is as pressing and urgent as ever. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore, O tu che m' ami - set thy love in order, o thou who lovest me. Romer's central theme is encapsulated by these words, and his prolonged and painstaking exploration of the 'intermittences of the heart', frequently carried out with a Francophile self-consciousness and rueful wit, constitute so many variations on the theme. Romer's New ... Read more
Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore, O tu che m' ami - set thy love in order, o thou who lovest me. Romer's central theme is encapsulated by these words, and his prolonged and painstaking exploration of the 'intermittences of the heart', frequently carried out with a Francophile self-consciousness and rueful wit, constitute so many variations on the theme. Romer's New ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784103767
SKU
V9781784103767
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99-24
About Stephen Romer
Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and read English at Cambridge. Since 1981 he has lived in France, where he is Maitre de Conferences at Tours University. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge and has taught in the US. He has published four full collections, including Yellow Studio (2008), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. ... Read more
Reviews for Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems
'Readers open to Romer's scrupulous, passionate music and the conversational intimacy of his address will gather rich rewards.' - Sean O'Brien, Culture; 'Stephen Romer is one of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love ... Emotional vulnerability is tempered by a wit and formal control that are never obtrusive.' - Adam Thorpe, Guardian; 'Romer is one of our finest ... Read more