Selected Poems

Donald Davie author Sinead Morrissey editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd

Published:8th Dec '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Selected Poems cover

This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades. It traces his protean trajectory from austere beginnings to riskier dislocations of shape and syntax, through to his extended late-meditations on form, content, and spirit. To apply his own critical definition of syntax, his is a poetic of articulate energy, the restless redistribution of force – an abiding resource and inspiration.

'[Davie's] poems thrive on the restless energy that drives their author on from form to form and place to place. Few poets are more likely than Davie to persuade new readers that poetry can still be a matter of concern and pleasure.' - Martin Dodsworth, The Guardian

ISBN: 9781800172906

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Weight: unknown

132 pages