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Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry

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Description for Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446. 320 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight: 442.
Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to know about poetry would go to someone who knew something about it.' That's exactly what Bloodaxe has done with this judicious and comprehensive selection of British, Irish and American manifestos by some of modern poetry's finest practitioners. Opening the 20th century account with Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, the book moves through key later figures including W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852245153
SKU
V9781852245153
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About W.n. Herbert
W.N. [Bill] Herbert is a highly versatile poet who writes both in English and Scots. Born in Dundee, he established his reputation with two English/Scots collections from Bloodaxe, Forked Tongue (1994) and Cabaret McGonagall (1996). These were followed by The Laurelude (1998), The Big Bumper Book of Troy (2002), Bad Shaman Blues (2006), Omnesia (2013) and The Wreck of the ... Read more

Reviews for Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry
Utterly compelling… Strong Words brings together a diverse collection of essential commentaries in a single volume.
Duncan Wu
BBC Radio 3 Book of the Month

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