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New and Selected Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9781800170223
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Ian Pople
  • Price: AUD $39.99
  • Stock: 10 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 12/10/2022
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 180 pages Weight: 250g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Ian Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of England and home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement and loss. The traveller changes identities as he moves, responding to different surroundings, and the early poems collected here provide a varied retrospect, moving through Africa, Europe and Asia - so that we read the more recent work from a different perspective. The travel poems explore the range of reactions, appropriations and misappropriations as physical and psychological boundaries are crossed. More recent writing responds to music and the visual arts, using assemblages or bricolage to convey the painfully familiar experience of displacement, dislocation. There are poems that answer back to figures from jazz history, Roland Kirk, Dupree Bolton and Pat Metheny among them. It is wonderful to encounter such an accomplished and varied a body of work which shares with us its vivid spaces and tones. Pople, one of the most lucid critics of modern and contemporary-especially American-poetry, is an original artist in his own right.
Ian Pople was born in Ipswich and educated at the British Council, Athens, and the universities of Aston, Manchester and Nottingham. He has taught English in secondary and higher education in UK, Sudan, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He has taught at the University of Manchester for over twenty years, where he still teaches today.
* A New and Selected Poems from writer and artist Ian Pople, also one of today’s most lucid critics of modern and contemporary - especially American - poetry. * Pople has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. * His poems explore identity, borders, crossings, boundaries, and the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement and loss. * More recent poems respond to the visual arts and music, particularly answering back to figures from jazz history (Roland Kirk, Dupree Bolton and Pat Metheny).
'[an] acute eye for the detail of the human world as well as the natural one' - Ian McMillan
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