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About the Author
PETER McDONALD was born and grew up in Belfast. He won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry and an Eric Gregory Award. A University teacher, he is currently Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ Church, Oxford. A prominent critic of modern and contemporary poetry, he has published a book on Louis MacNeice, a study of Northern Irish poetry entitled Mistaken Identities, and, most recently, Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill. He has edited MacNeice's Selected Plays, and is also the editor of the forthcoming new edition of MacNeice's Collected Poems.
Reviews
"These poems, which with their gently syncopated lines may seem understated, register the uneasiness and the excitement of 'the buzzing world.' They are in the poet's own words, 'back roads to everywhere.'" Michael Longley"
Book Information
ISBN 9781857547528
Author Peter McDonald
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd