A World Beyond Myself: Selected Poems

Kopland, Rutger (Author); Brockway, James (Translator and Introduction); Hooker, Jeremy (Foreword)

ISBN 10: 1870612817 / ISBN 13: 9781870612814

Published by Enitharmon Press, London, 1991

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Paperback in very good condition. Spine head is slightly bumped and rubbed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A World Beyond Myself: Selected Poems
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press, London
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870612817
• ISBN 13: 9781870612814
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Horses - Their nervous heads in the mist, had I not known who they were, I'd have thought it was no more than the dream of being together in a meadow in the winter, but I knew, I recognized them. They had come out of a past, hesitated, and turned back into it. In recent years poems by the Dutch writer Rutger Kopland have made regular appearances in British magazines and journals, among them "Stand", "Encounter" and "London Magazine". A small pamphlet of his poems was published in 1987 under the title "The Prospect and the River" (Jackson's Arm Press), but this new book is the first substantial selection to appear in English. It charts the development of Kopland's work from the time of his first Dutch book in 1966 - poems that provided ironical, anecdotal impressions of life in a god-fearing rural community - to the latest poems of metaphysical and philosophical explorations and spiritual journeys.

About the Author

Rutger Kopland is the pseudonym of Professor R. H. van den Hoofdakker (b. 1934), a distinguished neurologist at Groningen University. He has been publishing volumes of poetry since 1966 and is one of Holland's most respected and widely-read poets. His ninth collection appeared in 1989, the year in which he received his country's highest award for literary achievement, the P.C. Hooft Prize.James Brockway, who has lived in Holland since 1946, has for many years been active in promoting contemporary British authors through his articles in the Dutch press. His translations of Dutch poetry and prose have appeared in numerous English magazines, and this work was recognised in 1966 with the award of the Martinus Nijhoff Prize. His books include two collections of essays and The Prospect and the River, a short selection of his Kopland translations.