Poems and Notes (Paperback)

N.S.A. Parsons

ISBN 10: 1035886367 / ISBN 13: 9781035886364

Published by Austin Macauley Publishers, London, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Poems and Notes is a short volume composed over many years, charting the emotional and intellectual evolution of the author through the most significant events of his life. His preface is a biography in brief and introduces the poetry of his maturity. There follows what remains of his apprentice work, to demonstrate the origins of his passions and preoccupations. The Notes conclude the volume, providing a background and commentary to his life, at the end of which the author finds a conclusion both to the work and to his own writing. Poems and Notes is concerned above all with understanding and making sense of the author's experience, of reconciling circumstance and creating, if possible, something memorable and beautiful from even his most difficult times. Cover: Detail from After the Storm, c.1700, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Studio. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Poems and Notes is a short volume composed over many years, charting the emotional and intellectual evolution of the author through the most significant events of his life. His preface is a biography in brief and introduces the poetry of his maturity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems and Notes (Paperback)
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers, London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035886367
• ISBN 13: 9781035886364
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Poems and Notes is a short volume composed over many years, charting the emotional and intellectual evolution of the author through the most significant events of his life. His preface is a biography in brief and introduces the poetry of his maturity. There follows what remains of his apprentice work, to demonstrate the origins of his passions and preoccupations. The Notes conclude the volume, providing a background and commentary to his life, at the end of which the author finds a conclusion both to the work and to his own writing. Poems and Notes is concerned above all with understanding and making sense of the author's experience, of reconciling circumstance and creating, if possible, something memorable and beautiful from even his most difficult times. Cover: Detail from After the Storm, c.1700, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Studio. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

About the Author

N.S.A. Parsons studied Art History and English before moving to London to pursue a career in the Metropolitan Police. Throughout this time, he continued to read, to travel and to write. The present volume, Poems and Notes, preserves the continuity of these interests to the time of his retirement from the police. He is married and now lives in Hertfordshire.