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Michael Murphy's new annotated edition of major 1930s poet Kenneth Allott

Kenneth Allott

Collected PoemsKenneth Allott was born in Glamorgan and educated in Newcastle and Oxford. Widely regarded as one of the most promising poets of the late Thirties, he published just two volumes in his lifetime, Poems (Hogarth Press, 1938) and The Ventriloquist’s Doll (The Cresset Press, 1942). A posthumous Collected Poems (Secker & Warburg, 1975) gathered his earlier publications with a selection of unpublished work, edited by Miriam Allott and Roy Fuller. In Michael Murphy’s new annotated edition of the Collected Poems all Allot’s previously published work is combined with eighteen new poems, some of which have only recently come to light, the whole collection is introduced and annotated by Murphy and now represents the most complete picture of one of the UK’s most compelling war time poets.

 

Allott held a position at Liverpool University from 1948 until the time of his death in 1973. Allott’s wife succeeded him as Chair in Modern English, and in 1978 established the Kenneth Allott Lecture in Poetry. This Collected Poems is published in 2008, the thirtieth anniversary of the Lecture and the year in which Liverpool is designated the European Capital of Culture.

Tim Atkins Folklore reinvents pastoral lyric poetry

Tim Atkins

FolkloreFolklore is an ecstatic, dreamlike, and starkly realist poem sequence which extends, challenges, and continues the tradition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, John Clare’s visionary lyrics, the elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill, and linguistic innovation of Gertrude Stein and the language poets.

Julia Bird debuts with Hannah and the Monk

Julia Bird

Hannah and the M
                    onkReading Julia Bird’s debut collection of poems is like sorting through the contents of an up-ended jewellery box. Here are delicately crafted formal love poems set with gleaming imagery, all mixed up with the rhinestone razzle of looser, noisier poems about urban myths, history, film and tv. The murkier side of life is not avoided, but these musical, consolatory poems are accessible, inquisitive and ultimately celebratory.

Pam Brown’s new work examines our period of global instability and military irruption.

Pam Brown

True ThoughtsTrue Thoughts follows the success of Pam Brown’s last major collection Dear Deliria awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004. True Thoughts includes poems of sharply delineated streetscapes, imagined havens, distant places, encounters with friends, ideas, history, and a kind of fragmented urbanity. Brown’s writing is deftly ironic, and affects a sense of the ludicrous in the face of mortality, as the poems attempt to fathom the question ‘how to live?’ alongside the larger one ‘how to live now?’

Going underground with Andrew Duncan

Andrew Duncan

Origins of the UndergroundThe background to Origins of the Underground is really the story of how British poets became intellectuals. As they retreated from inherited and fixed value systems, they had to think for themselves, and this was a race which intellectuals generally won. You can’t just buy in ideas like a small tropical country buying jet fighter planes. What the success of poets seems to turn on is their willingness to use ideas which excite the ideas part of their brains because they are genuinely unfamiliar. Poets who prefer to stick to well-worn and inherited arguments, where they can predict every move, fail for this reason. The area of nearby uncertainty has an odd shape. Obviously, most of the ideas which were new and risky thirty years ago are now forgotten — the risk fell to earth, so to speak. A certain archaeology is needed to retrieve these “casualty” ideas. I admit that I enjoy this sort of digging, and the practice of psychoceramics (the scientific study of crackpots), but perhaps this pleasure pursuit is useful as well. The terrain is made impassable by deep mutual disagreements between different groups of poetry readers (and writers). Going in at the level of ideas offers a possible way of easing these disagreements. Admittedly, it’s very difficult to find out exactly what they are.

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Raymond Friel’s evocative and intimate new collection

Raymond Friel

Stations of the HeartStations of the Heart charts an emotional journey from the anxious landscape of contemporary England back through the pieties and vivid recollections of a childhood in a very different religious and cultural setting. Through negotiating the ways of the heart, its extremes of bliss and despair, as well as some insights into the blandness and blankness of the modern professional heart, the poems arrive slowly at some sense of the possibility of resolution and redemption based on openness to mystery

Tania Hershman’s new book may be the first short story collection to be “offset” by planting a tree for every copy sold.

Tania Hershman

The White Road

What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags and a casino where gamblers can wager their shoes? They’re among the multiple venues where award-winning writer Tania Hershman sets her unique tales in this spellbinding debut collection.

 

The author has won prizes for her stories which have been widely published in British, American and international literary journals, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Timed to coincide with London’s Rothko exhibition, Sue Hubbard’s tales unite the theme of painting with the lives of women

Sue Hubbard

Goose MusicRothko’s Red is a collection of ten stories, subtly linked by painting and art, about the lives of women: their hopes, fears, failures and challenges. They reveal the choices and destinies of characters from various backgrounds, embracing the harsh realities of desire, loss and ageing. Powerful, yet tender, psychologically intricate and emotionally perceptive, these stories examine the complex lives of modern women. Substantial, moving and beautifully written they call upon Sue Hubbard’s wide ranging knowledge of and feel for art.

 

Geraldine Monk’s ghostly narratives add a twist to the sonnet form

Geraldine Monk

Ghost & Other SonnetsGhost & Other Sonnets will disturb and delight. Divided into three sections the sequence begins with the Ghost Sonnets. Using traditional ghost narratives Monk condenses them into the tightly controlled sonnet form and twists them into something totally new. Aficionados of ghost stories will revel in this reinvention of a popular genre. In the second section, & Sonnets there is a drastic mood change as personal experience and harrowing news items root the poems into the mundane world of everyday existence. Some of these poems delves into the dark reality of ‘unnatural’ happenings: the tragedies of the Beslan massacre or the Chinese cockle pickers whilst others rescue the banal and sweep it off into the realms of the fantastical. The final section, Other Sonnets inhabits the cusp between Ghost and &. Here chance and inexplicable coincidence meet in the ghostly multiplications of language.

John Wilkinson’s Down to Earth is his darkest work to date …

John Wilkinson

Down to EarthJohn Wilkinson’s Down to Earth is his darkest work to date: a disturbing road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration, an examination of now-ubiquitous borders, and a meteorological tour of our growing energy crises. Global and internal flows of capital, consumer products, waste, labour and body parts all shape its contorted map of the 21st century.

 

Narrative poems echoing traditional forms, are intercut with damaged and damaging lyrics; these various styles have their analogues in the sculpture several passages praise and deprecate. In addition, Down to Earth incorporates an extended homage to Artemis of Ephasus.

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Kenneth Allott
Collected Poems

Tim Atkins
Folklore

Julia Bird
Hannah and the Monk

Raymond Friel
Stations of the Heart

Tania Hershman
The White Road and Other Stories

Geraldine Monk
Ghost & Other Sonnets

John Wilkinson
Down to Earth

 
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