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Poems

Selected
  • ISBN-13: 9781857542196
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By C. H. Sisson
  • Price: AUD $19.99
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  • Local release date: 27/11/1995
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 135g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Poems: Selected traces over half a century of C.H. Sisson's work, starting with poems written on a troopship and in Bengal and ending on home ground in Somerset. His beginnings were 'without facility, and when I was forced into verse it was through having something not altogether easy to say.' A writer 'worth a place on the short shelf reserved for the finest twentieth-century poets' (The Times) and 'one of the great translators of our time' (The Times Literary Supplement), Sisson occupies an unusual place in English letters: standing apart, his clear-eyed political and literary appraisals and uncompromisedly English stance are inspiring to writers and readers in a wide variety of disciplines. Donald Hall wrote, 'His poems move in service of the loved landscapes of England and France; they sing (and growl) in love of argument, in love of seeing through, in love of the firm descriptions of moral self-disgust; they move in love of the old lost life by which the new life is condemned.' (New York Review of Books) This selection replaces the 1981 Selected Poems, providing a comprehensive representation of the work and including 'Tristia', a sequence written by the poet in his eighty-first year.
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