New Collected Poems (Paperback)

W.S. Graham

ISBN 10: 0571209890 / ISBN 13: 9780571209897

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2005

About this Item

Paperback. From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given us poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the twentieth century. Graham died in 1986 with much of his work gathered in Collected Poems 1942-1977. However, two posthumous collections - Uncollected Poems (1990) and Aimed at Nobody (1993) - have unearthed a wealth of important new material and heightened the need to retell the full publication story. Edited by poet and Graham-scholar Matthew Francis, this New Collected Poems offers the broadest picture yet of Graham's work. 'I first read a W S Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.' - Harold Pinter. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Collected Poems (Paperback)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571209890
• ISBN 13: 9780571209897
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

''I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.'' Harold Pinter.


From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the twentieth century. This New Collected Poems, edited by poet and Graham-scholar Matthew Francis and with a foreword by Douglas Dunn, offers the broadest picture yet of Graham''s work.

About the Author

Matthew Francis is the author of three Faber collections: Blizzard and Dragons were both shortlisted for the Forward Prize; Mandeville, his most recent collection, was published in 2008. He is editor of W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems and has also published a study of Graham, Where the People Are, and a novel, WHOM. In 2004 he was named as one of the Next Generation Poets. He is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and lives in West Wales with his wife, Creina.