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Selected Poems
Jack Clemo
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Description for Selected Poems
Paperback. Introduced by Rowan Williams Editor(s): Thompson, Luke. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 140.
IThis new selection of the poetry of the acclaimed Cornish poet Jack Clemo includes work from all of his major volumes, from The Clay Verge in 1951 to 1995's The Cured Arno. Awkward, radical, nature-baiting landscape poems full of pain and anguish give way to monologues, biographical sketches, broader themes and looser forms. The settings of white tips, flooded pits and the grinding works of the industrial-rural clayscape are replaced by the rivers and bridges of Florence and Venice and the coastal ease of Dorset. However, as Rowan Williams states in his introduction, 'mellow is not the word' for this ... Read more
IThis new selection of the poetry of the acclaimed Cornish poet Jack Clemo includes work from all of his major volumes, from The Clay Verge in 1951 to 1995's The Cured Arno. Awkward, radical, nature-baiting landscape poems full of pain and anguish give way to monologues, biographical sketches, broader themes and looser forms. The settings of white tips, flooded pits and the grinding works of the industrial-rural clayscape are replaced by the rivers and bridges of Florence and Venice and the coastal ease of Dorset. However, as Rowan Williams states in his introduction, 'mellow is not the word' for this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
140 g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910392065
SKU
V9781910392065
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Ref
99-1
About Jack Clemo
Jack Clemo (1916-1994), English poet and author whose physical sufferings - he became deaf about 1936 and blind in 1955 - influenced his work. Clemo's formal education ended when he was 13. His early poems reflect the stark landscape of the clay-pits in their austere intensity. Important in his writings are the themes of Christianity and ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Poems
'a remarkable and original writer... [whose] charged, evangelical language has a strenuous urgency, a mixture of austere beauty and an often remorseless emphasis on the 'striving flesh', the 'storm-flash of grace.'
The Independent
'Jack Clemo is one of Cornwall's most important literary figures.'
The Cornish Guardian
The Independent
'Jack Clemo is one of Cornwall's most important literary figures.'
The Cornish Guardian