Description
This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades. It traces his protean trajectory from austere beginnings to riskier dislocations of shape and syntax, through to his extended late-meditations on form, content, and spirit. To apply his own critical definition of syntax, his is a poetic of articulate energy, the restless redistribution of force - an abiding resource and inspiration.
About the Author
Born in Barnsley in 1922, Donald Davie served in the Navy and studied at Cambridge, becoming Professor of English at Essex, and later at Stanford and Vanderbilt. In 1988 he returned to England where he died in 1995. Carcanet's uniform Collected Works of Donald Davie includes Under Briggflatts (1989), Slavic Excursions (1990), Collected Poems (1990), Studies in Ezra Pound (1991), Older Masters (1992), Church, Chapel, and the Unitarian Conspiracy (1995) and Poems and Melodramas (1996). Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy (one volume) are also available from Carcanet.;Sinead Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Her awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007), the T.S. Eliot Prize (2013), the Forward Prize (2017) and the European Poet of Freedom Award (2020). She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate (2013-2014) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.
Reviews
'[Davie's] poems thrive on the restless energy that drives their author on from form to form and place to place. Few poets are more likely than Davie to persuade new readers that poetry can still be a matter of concern and pleasure.' - Martin Dodsworth, The Guardian
Book Information
ISBN 9781800172906
Author Donald Davie
Format Paperback
Page Count 132
Imprint Carcanet Classics
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
About the Author
Born in Barnsley in 1922, Donald Davie served in the Navy and studied at Cambridge, becoming Professor of English at Essex, and later at Stanford and Vanderbilt. In 1988 he returned to England where he died in 1995. Carcanet's uniform Collected Works of Donald Davie includes Under Briggflatts (1989), Slavic Excursions (1990), Collected Poems (1990), Studies in Ezra Pound (1991), Older Masters (1992), Church, Chapel, and the Unitarian Conspiracy (1995) and Poems and Melodramas (1996). Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy (one volume) are also available from Carcanet.;Sinead Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Her awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007), the T.S. Eliot Prize (2013), the Forward Prize (2017) and the European Poet of Freedom Award (2020). She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate (2013-2014) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.
Reviews
'[Davie's] poems thrive on the restless energy that drives their author on from form to form and place to place. Few poets are more likely than Davie to persuade new readers that poetry can still be a matter of concern and pleasure.' - Martin Dodsworth, The Guardian
Book Information
ISBN 9781800172906
Author Donald Davie
Format Paperback
Page Count 132
Imprint Carcanet Classics
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
