Lifelines - Softcover

Forbes, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904634656 ISBN 13: 9781904634652

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 2009

Synopsis

A lively and versatile poet, Duncan Forbes can deal in modes both comic and elegiac with life’s events. With his eye for detail and strong understanding of traditions, he approaches the enduring themes of poetry in fresh and contemporary ways. His prizewinning work has featured in various anthologies and has been broadcast on radio in Britain and the USA. This selection provides a welcome introduction to the range of his work. His poems have been widely published and have won him a growing readership as well as a Gregory Award, the A.V. Bowen Lyric Poem Prize, the TLS/Blackwell’s Prize and a Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation, among other things. The poems here are drawn from five collections and span nearly forty years.

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About the Author

Duncan Forbes was born in 1947, read English at Oxford and was Head of English at Wycombe Abbey School. His poems have appeared in the Observer, Poetry Review, Spectator and Times Literary Supplement, and have won him a Gregory Award. His first collection, August Autumn, was published by Secker & Warburg in 1984 and he won First Prize in the TLS / Blackwell's Poetry Competition in 1998. Forbes is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Worcester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904634656
• ISBN 13: 9781904634652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144