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21%OFFLawrence Sail - Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems - 9781852248833 - V9781852248833
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Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems

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Description for Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems Paperback. Substantial retrospective by leading British poet covering work written over four decades from ten collections. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Lawrence Sail's poems balance dream and history, delight and unease: they weigh the art of the possible against the encroachment of time. This substantial retrospective covers work written over four decades, drawing on poems from ten collections, from "Opposite Views" (1974) to the "New Poems" (2010) first collected in this volume. The new poems continue to explore Sail's characteristic themes - the border country between belief and doubt; the interplay of memory and imagination; the possibilities of art; the context of silence: and they do so with a fresh inwardness. Attentive to the often alluring details of the material and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248833
SKU
V9781852248833
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About Lawrence Sail
Lawrence Sail was born in London and brought up in Exeter. He studied French and German at Oxford University, then taught for some years in Kenya, before returning to teach in the UK. He is now a freelance writer and lives in Exeter. His retrospective Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, ... Read more

Reviews for Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems
'Beneath the elegance and refinement of Lawrence Sail's artistry is the ever-present undertow - the current below the aesthetic surface, moving in a contrary direction to that of the surface current, and it is this that gives the poems their authority and depth of vision' - Catherine Beeston, Critical Survey. 'There is a shimmering quality to Sail's sensibility which moves ... Read more

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