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portada Collected Poems
Type
Physical Book
Author
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Publisher
Year
1996
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.7 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm
Weight
0.28 kg.
ISBN
1852243015
ISBN13
9781852243012
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Collected Poems

Freda Downie (Author) · George Szirtes (Illustrated by) · Bloodaxe Books · Paperback

Collected Poems - Downie, Freda ; Szirtes, George

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Synopsis "Collected Poems"

This posthumously published retrospection covers Downie's collections A Strange Here (1977) and Plainsong (1981) along with a larger number of previously uncollected poems. 'Although Freda Downie was to publish only one more full book before her death in 1993, the equally well received Plainsong, she continued, as Grigson said, to get it better and better. Because she was shy of publishing she received less of the limelight than she might have had, but nevertheless, her work in anthologies has always drawn admiring critical attention. Her readers would certainly agree that she wrote no bad poems. Furthermore, they would propose, few contemporary poets have written with such sad luminosity. Indeed, her poetry is one of sharp distillations: single figures in social landscapes moving between yearning and disappointment, between fear and the desire of oblivion, listening and watching everything intently with a witty, even humorous attention. These figures know their manners but are conscious of their eccentricity and of the mire and fury of human veins implicit in manners; they also know that the clearer, sharper and suddener the danger of oblivion, the sharper, clearer and intenser the poem that sense of danger animates. With something of Stevie Smith's melancholy, an element of Jane Austen's precision and the clarity of Grigson himself at his best, Freda Downie remains all the time inimitably herself. More than that, this volume of her collected poems will show her to have been one of the most poignant and memorable poets of our time.' - George Szirtes.

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