Against the Stream: Poems by Jo Rippier [Hardcover] [Dec 02, 1999] Rippier, Joseph and Elsner, Gerhard

Rippier, Jo

ISBN 10: 086140422X / ISBN 13: 9780861404223

Published by Colin Smythe Ltd, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Against the Stream: Poems by Jo Rippier [Hardcover] [Dec 02, 1999] Rippier, Joseph and Elsner, Gerhard
• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 086140422X
• ISBN 13: 9780861404223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gerhard, Elsner
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This collection of Jo Rippier's poetry has been stunningly illustrated by Gerhard Elsner, whose work is represented in major art museums through Germany, and for whom a retrospective is being held in Uberlinger, Germany to mark his seventieth birthday. T

About the Author

Jo Rippier was born in Plymouth in 1935, and educated at King’s School Worcester and Emmanuel College Cambridge. He gained his Ph.D. in English Literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitatät, where he was a lecturer in the English Department until retiring in 1998. His previous publications include 'The Short Stories of Sean O’Faolain: A Study in Descriptive Techniques', and 'Some Postwar English Novelists', a volume of short stories, 'Goodnight, Morning, and collections of poetry', Seasons and Remembrance (1981), Beginnings, Endings (1991), Past Present (1996), Against the Stream (1999, with aquarelles by Gerhard Elsner), Late Motley (2001), Something Old, Something New (2007), Echoes and Reflections (2009), Footsteps (2011), The Silence of Snow (2013), Darkness and Light (2014), Shadows (2015) and Sights and Sounds (2017).