Even So: New & Selected Poems - Softcover

Roper, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190455699X ISBN 13: 9781904556992

Publisher: Dedalus Press, 2008

Synopsis

"Even So reveals the extent to which Mark Roper's move from the UK to the Kilkenny countryside in 1980 has liberated his imagination and, by allowing him to report on lived, day-to-day experience, helped him to become an extraordinarily distinguished 'nature poet'-or, perhaps the better term, 'poetic naturalist'. Ireland's gift to the poet has been an environment that is still relatively unspoiled, and continues to permit ancient harmonious relationships between land-working humans and the birds, beasts, woodland, pools and pastures with which their lives interweave. Roper's gift to his adopted home, and to the great poetic tradition of 'nature writing' in these islands, is laid out here, in this wonderfully varied miscellany of new work and selections from his earlier volumes." - Carol Rumens, from the Introduction

Edition details

• Publisher: Dedalus Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190455699X
• ISBN 13: 9781904556992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172