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Borrowed Landscapes
Peter Scupham
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Description for Borrowed Landscapes
Paperback. Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age shaped by the Suez crisis and the Cold War. Num Pages: 91 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age shaped by the Suez crisis and the Cold War. The barbarities of the twentieth century haunt the shadows; there is comfort in the graces of domestic life, in friendships and long memories, in cats and gardens and eccentricities. A sequence of poems honours the life of a scholarly father-in-law who fought in the Great War. In a parallel autobiographical sequence, ... Read more
Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age shaped by the Suez crisis and the Cold War. The barbarities of the twentieth century haunt the shadows; there is comfort in the graces of domestic life, in friendships and long memories, in cats and gardens and eccentricities. A sequence of poems honours the life of a scholarly father-in-law who fought in the Great War. In a parallel autobiographical sequence, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
130g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770806
SKU
V9781847770806
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Ref
99-50
About Peter Scupham
Peter Scupham was born in Liverpool in 1933 and studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He co-founded The Mandeville Press and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Carcanet publish his Collected Poems (2002), his Selected Poems (1999) and several collections of his poems. He has also published previous books with Oxford University Press and Anvil. He now lives ... Read more
Reviews for Borrowed Landscapes
[Scupham helps] to define what is remarkable, oddly romantic, even visionary about an apparently desolate culture that remains stubbornly alive. George Szirtes, Guardian