Aidan Semmens's fifth collection of poems moves from the range of the world to the deeply personal, always placing the detail in historical context. Employing a variety of poetic techniques, he moves from the moral ambiguities of empire to the run-in to Brexit; from a reworking, forty years on, of the poem for which he was awarded the Cambridge University Chancellor's Medal, to the breakdown of language suffered by his mother after an ultimately fatal stroke. "There's an exuberance of the poet in full stride. Typically, the phrasing and imagery are seductive and of the physical world being lived. Learning is carried lightly, erudition not pushed at the reader but drawn into the lyricism."-Kelvin Corcoran

About the Author
A 33-year gap separated the publication of Aidan Semmens's first poetry pamphlet by Lobby Press in 1978 and his first full collection, A Stone Dog, by Shearsman in 2011. He has since edited By The North Sea, an anthology of Suffolk poetry (2013), published three further collections, and relaunched Molly Bloom, a magazine he founded in 1981, as an online-only publication. He lives in Suffolk and is a freelance journalist.


Book Information
ISBN 9781848617209
Author Aidan Semmens
Format Paperback
Page Count 84
Imprint Shearsman Books
Publisher Shearsman Books
Weight(grams) 137g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm