Thirty Three Poems. With an introduction by Herbert Palmer.

Gibson, Douglas.

Published by London, King, Littlewood & King Limited, No date (1942), 1942

About this Item

12 cm x 18.5 cm. 31 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Very good condition with minor signs of wear. Browning of paper, discolouration of cover. Includes for example the following poems: English Earth / June Evening / Swans in Flight / Early Morning from a Train / Essendon / Lizard / The Spider / On a Dying Robbit / Evensong. Worcester Cathedral / Failure / The Ferryman / Sunday Morning / Evening by the Canal / The Old Stone Bridge / Hunger / Seashore etc. "Douglas Gibson was born in 1912 and died in May of 1984. He wrote some of his best work while working as a porter in the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford during the 2nd World War - a job he was assigned as a conscientious objector. He was born in Carshalton, Surrey (a leafy suburb of London). His last decades were spent in Leigh on Sea, a small town on the Thames estuary in Essex. He was married to Dorothy, with two children, Christopher and Carol. " (Allpoetry) Sprache: english.

Seller Inventory # 72255AB

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thirty Three Poems. With an introduction by Herbert Palmer.
• Publisher: London, King, Littlewood & King Limited, No date (1942)
• Publication Date: 1942
• Binding: Soft cover
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