After the Rain
New and selected poems 1991 - 2016
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Zeticula Ltd
Published:3rd May '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
George Gunn's writing is distinctive, with an urgent sense of people and place. This selection from his previously published poems plus eleven new ones continues to reveal an imagination that, while rooted in a physical and metaphorical Northerly Land, roams widely and forages keenly across a local, national, international, global and ultimately cosmic territory of natural beauty, personal relationships, social injustice and political idiocy. The powerful new work that closes the collection includes poems for Osip Mandelshtam (1891-1938), Alexander Hutchison (1943-2015), Derek Walcott (1930-2017) and the people of Aleppo.
Reading George Gunn’s poetry is an adventure in breathlessness.…. he sweeps us through a quarter century of lyrical observation and intensity sparked by Caithness, its people, the land and the surrounding sea…… The dancing rivers of his verse encompass traditional form, free verse and poetry as song [navigating] with skill the wide and stormy oceans of cultural and political debate. Anne Macleod, Northwords Now, Issue 37, Spring 2019.
ISBN: 9781849211710
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Weight: unknown
134 pages