{"product_id":"new-selected-poems-of-w-s-graham","title":"New Selected Poems of W. S. Graham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graham, W.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Random House\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Main\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 20-09-2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nOne hundred years after his birth, W. S. Graham's words seem more awake than ever. His subtle exploration of the paradoxes of language, his passionate conviction of the importance of art and the love he expresses for the people and landscapes of his native Clydeside and adopted home of Cornwall attract more readers each year. In startlingly original poems, he celebrates family and friendship and probes the limits of our understanding of the world and our place in it. Graham's\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Collected Poems (2004) marked a crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since his death in 1986. Now, as we honour his centenary, this\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Selected Poems presents his best and most characteristic: from his epic seafaring masterpiece 'The Nightfishing' to the quirky metaphysics of 'Implements in their Places', as well as a selection of his early neo-romantic poems, which Graham himself believed were essential to a full understanding of his oeuvre, and some remarkable uncollected work. There is no better way to make the acquaintance of one of the greatest British poets of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nA discovery. The art of the unsaid, with something of Wallace Stevens's lightness. -- Beverley Bie Brahic ―\u003cbr\u003e\nTimes Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe centenary of the great Scottish poet WS Graham was marked with\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Selected Poems, edited by Matthew Francis. Graham believed that language contained the \"shape of all of us\", but no modern poet has written more touchingly about loneliness, often in the dead of night. The Thermal Stair, his elegy for the painter Peter Lanyon, is a heartfelt lament of great artfulness, which also magically captures the coastal landscape of Cornwall, where he lived. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times, Poetry Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n      Book Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nNew Selected Poems to mark the centenary of this undervalued, key twentieth-century poet.\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nWilliam Sydney Graham (1918-1986) was born in Greenock, Scotland, and trained as an engineer. He settled in West Cornwall where a growing colony of experimental artists came to respect the determination and acute self-criticism with which he pursued his poetry. He wrote widely anthologised elegies for three of his artist friends, Roger Hilton, Peter Lanyon and Bryan Wynter, and is now widely viewed as one of the key UK poets of the late twentieth century. Graham's main collections are\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Nightfishing (1955),\u003cbr\u003e\nMalcolm Mooney's Land (1970) and\u003cbr\u003e\nImplements in their Places (1977), all of which can be found in\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Collected Poems (2004).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMatthew Francis is the author of four Faber collections, most recently\u003cbr\u003e\nMuscovy (2013). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He has also edited W. S. Graham's\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Collected Poems, and published a collection of short stories and two novels, the second of which,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press), came out in 2014. He lives in West Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571348442\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50252650316080,"sku":"Trans_9780571348442","price":1359.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/61eL6-8OXIL.jpg?v=1761641868","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/new-selected-poems-of-w-s-graham","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}