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The Day And Other Poems
Robert Wells
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Description for The Day And Other Poems
Paperback. Meditating upon erotic and rural themes, this work culminates in a poetic affirmation of the unending power of language. The first section documents the poet's experience as an Exmoor forester; the second is a sequence set in the Sabine hills in central Italy; and the third takes as its theme erotic friendship. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92.
"The Day and Other Poems" develops and expands the explorations of Robert Wells's previous collections, demonstrating a mature poet at the height of his craft. Meditating upon erotic and rural themes, it culminates in a poetic affirmation of the unending power of language. The collection, Wells's first since 1999, consists of short, highly wrought poems divided into four sections: the first documents the poet's experience as an Exmoor forester; the second is a sequence set in the Sabine hills in central Italy; the third section takes as its theme erotic friendship; and the miscellany of the fourth section mixes anecdote ... Read more
"The Day and Other Poems" develops and expands the explorations of Robert Wells's previous collections, demonstrating a mature poet at the height of his craft. Meditating upon erotic and rural themes, it culminates in a poetic affirmation of the unending power of language. The collection, Wells's first since 1999, consists of short, highly wrought poems divided into four sections: the first documents the poet's experience as an Exmoor forester; the second is a sequence set in the Sabine hills in central Italy; the third section takes as its theme erotic friendship; and the miscellany of the fourth section mixes anecdote ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548600
SKU
V9781857548600
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99-50
About Robert Wells
ROBERT WELLS was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman on Exmoor, a teacher in Italy and Iran, and in publishing. He now lives in France. Carcanet published two books of poetry, The Winter's Task (1977) and Selected Poems (1986), and two verse translations, Virgil's Georgics (1982) and Theocritus's Idylls (1988).
Reviews for The Day And Other Poems
'Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other...The healing loneliness of hills and waters, and the solitary figures who move among them...are the setting and characters of Wells' poems.' - George Mackay Brown. 'The greatest lyric poet of my generation' - Kathleen Raine.