Isbn: 9781857540116 - listening in (5 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 52 pages. This collection of poems are by turns humorous, painful, spiky and eloquent, recalling Gareth Reeves's father, the poet and critic James Reeves. The collection culminates in a sequence of fourteen lyrics about his father's partial-sightedness. For Gareth Reeves the anxiety of influence is a filial matter. In other poems the quirks of memory stimulate a difficult truth-seeking - about an organ-playing chemistry teacher, an Oxford suicide and odd-ball, a black American con-artist, an expatriate Marxist Englishman in California, about teaching Vietnam draftees, about selling blood in pre-Junta Greece - whilst in poems such as "The Cockroach Sang in the Plane-tree", "High Life" and "Gaps" (about the poet Norman Cameron), the concern with mortality finds bleak and disconcerting expression. (SL#43).…

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; vii, 52 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Reeves, Gareth (1947-). English poetry 20th century. English poetry. Fathers and sons Poetry. Poets, English 20th century. England Poetry. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; vii, 52 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Reeves, Gareth (1947-). English poetry 20th century. English poetry. Fathers and sons Poetry. Poets, English 20th century. England Poetry. 1 Kg.…

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:9781857540116.…

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:9781857540116.…