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New and Selected Poems

Kelvin Corcoran author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Shearsman Books

Published:15th Apr '04

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Kelvin Corcoran's first book, Robin Hood in the Dark Ages, appeared in 1985 and he has published eight subsequent collections with a range of British small presses. This volume presents a complete new collection, 'Against Purity', together with a previously unpublished shorter sequence, 'My Life With Byron', plus selections from each of his previous nine volumes of poetry, to give an overview of the work of one of the finest British poets of his generation.

"Corcoran emerged into view around 1985, with the piquantly titled 'Robin Hood in the Dark Ages', and has produced consistently ever since - something which is true of no other individual. It is this strength and calm which have made him a giant figure of the middle generation, placed between the generation radicalised thirty years ago by the counter-culture and the younger generation..." (Andrew Duncan, 'Poetry Salzburg')

ISBN: 9780907562399

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm

Weight: 261g

200 pages