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Selected Poems: Donald Davie

  • ISBN-13: 9781800172906
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Donald Davie
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 9 in stock
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  • Local release date: 28/02/2023
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 180g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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To mark the centenary of Donald Davies birth, Carcanet publishes a new Selected Poems drawn from the full trajectory of his poetry and showing his skills as lyric, satirical, elegiac, epistolary and philosophical poet. He was, par excellence, the engaged poet of our time, not in the pre-emptive manner of protest poets, though he is political and does protest. But he is a poet of English perspectives, refracted through historical and theological mediation. And he loved the writing of Ezra Pound in all its suggestive contradiction. Pound challenged him to try longer forms, to break away from the discrete lyric and to use poetry for the most compelling and complex themes. His passion was for our common language, its registers and tonalities, what it can do responsibly and where it can go only at its peril. Sinead Morrissey introduces this new selection, prepared by his long-term editor and friend Michael Schmidt. Davie developed some of the most dependable ways into the heart of Modernism - American, Irish, British, Continental. Davies poems are themselves an index of his directions and an invaluable resource for the contemporary reader and poet.

Donald Davie (1922-1995) was born in Barnsley, served in the Navy and was educated at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. He had a long and distinguished career as a teacher in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States, becoming Professor of English at Essex, and later at Stanford and Vanderbilt. In 1988 he returned to England where he died in 1995.
• To mark the centenary of Donald Davie’s birth, Carcanet publishes a new Selected Poems • Draws from the full trajectory of Davie’s poetry and shows his skills as lyric, satirical, elegiac, epistolary and philosophical poet • A poet of English perspectives, refracted through history and theology, he developed some of the most dependable ways into the heart of Modernism – American, Irish, British, and Continental • Edited and introduced by award-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey, perfect for new readers and those already familiar with his work
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