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This collection of short poems is divided into four sections and includes the poet's experience as an Exmoor forester, a sequence set in the Sabine hills of central Italy, the theme of erotic friendship, and a mixture of anecdote and satirical epigram with compacted memories of travel. The poems portray the opposition between the desire for openness and the desire for isolation while demonstrating the power of language to illuminate reality.
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ROBERT WELLS was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman on Exmoor, a teacher in Italy and Iran, and in publishing. He now lives in France. Carcanet published two books of poetry, The Winter's Task (1977) and Selected Poems (1986), and two verse translations, Virgil's Georgics (1982) and Theocritus's Idylls (1988).
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'Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other...The healing loneliness of hills and waters, and the solitary figures who move among them...are the setting and characters of Wells' poems.' - George Mackay Brown. 'The greatest lyric poet of my generation' - Kathleen Raine.
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1857548604
- ISBN 13 9781857548600
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages64
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