Description
Houses and gardens, remembered or imagined, dominate Neil Powell's sixth Carcanet collection. They range from a recollection of his grandmother's home in Chelsea to an abandoned, fog-shrouded building on the East Anglian coast; from a magical childhood garden in the Surrey hills to the composer Gerald Finzi's orchard in Hampshire. There is a sequence of sonnets set in the Waveney valley and a series of varied epigrams arranged as an alphabetical catalogue raisonne. As so often in Neil Powell's work, the North Sea laps at the edges of poems lit by the great Suffolk sky. Friends are recalled, birthdays celebrated, and A Halfway House ends with a moving elegy for the poet's father.
About the Author
NEIL POWELL, born in London in 1948, has taught English, owned a bookshop and, since 1990, been a full-time author and editor. He lives in Suffolk. His Carcanet books include five collections of poetry, including a Selected Poems (1998), two prose books and The Language of Jazz. George Crabbe: an English Life, is published by Pimlico in March 2004.
Book Information
ISBN 9781857546590
Author Neil Powell
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
About the Author
NEIL POWELL, born in London in 1948, has taught English, owned a bookshop and, since 1990, been a full-time author and editor. He lives in Suffolk. His Carcanet books include five collections of poetry, including a Selected Poems (1998), two prose books and The Language of Jazz. George Crabbe: an English Life, is published by Pimlico in March 2004.
Book Information
ISBN 9781857546590
Author Neil Powell
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
