You Have a Visitor - Softcover

Wootten, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905208332 ISBN 13: 9781905208333

Publisher: Worple Press, 2016

Synopsis

You Have a Visitor is a book of songs and stories. Its 52 poems are arranged to reflect the English seasons. Yet its characters range from American students on a European vacation to a television-watching emperor, and its settings stretch from a space station to Renaissance Wittenberg. Intricately constructed, and employing a range of tight metres, stanza shapes and rhyme schemes, the poems delight in making use of traditional possibilities of English verse, and are, in the case of the lyrics, highly musical. They are also fresh and immediate. The result is a collection that is evocative, thought-provoking and very different from much poetry published in recent years.

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About the Author

William Wootten grew up in Somerset, lives in London, and teaches at the University of Bristol. He has written widely on modern poetry, his essays and book reviews appearing in publications such as the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He is also the author of the critical study, The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter (Liverpool University Press, 2015). His poems have appeared in magazines including PN Review, Poetry Review, the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. This is his first collection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Worple Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1905208332
• ISBN 13: 9781905208333
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 65