Now that he is eighty-four, Anthony Thwaite says that Going Out is likely to be the last book of poems he publishes in his lifetime, and that the title is apt. But the words are wistful, even playful, and that is true of some of the book's contents. The poems range over times and places, commemorating friends (especially the poet Peter Porter), and draw on memories, hard-won faith, self-questioning. As Michael Frayn has put it, Thwaite 'writes with simplicity and precision about difficult and ambiguous things, the complexity and unceasingness of the world, the vastness and richness of the past, the elusiveness of the present - and the heroic persistence of our efforts to fix some trace of all this.'

About the Author
Anthony Thwaite has been a university teacher, a radio producer, and a literary editor. His first collection came out in 1953, and Enitharmon published his Collected Poems in 2007 and Late Poems in 2010. He is one of Philip Larkin's literary executors and editors. He is married to the biographer Ann Thwaite and lives in Norfolk.

Reviews
'This is spectacular poetry. It deserves to be read: good readers deserve to read it.' The Times



Book Information
ISBN 9781910392003
Author Anthony Thwaite
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Enitharmon Press
Publisher Enitharmon Press