Poems (A FIRST PRINTING)

ALAN ROSS (SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID HUGHES)

ISBN 10: 1843432242 / ISBN 13: 9781843432241

Published by HARVILL PRESS,UK, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems (A FIRST PRINTING)
• Publisher: HARVILL PRESS,UK
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843432242
• ISBN 13: 9781843432241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Cricket writer, independent publisher, and editor of the London Magazine, Alan Ross was foremost a poet of high elegance, whose 60 years of work, from his commission in the Royal Navy in 1941 to his death in 2001, is selected and introduced in these pages by his friend David Hughes. Alan Ross invented a poetic genre that extended well beyond occasional verse—poetry as a brief, intense form of journalism, easy to read, quick to stir response. To convey public and private events, Ross sketches a shorthand of his own. At their chosen level, half documentary, half commentary, his images cast a cumulative light on the kicks and miseries of 20th century war and love.

About the Author

Alan Ross was born in Calcutta in 1922 and spent his childhood in Bengal. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II and was editor of the London Magazine for forty years, introducing the work of writers such as Paul Theroux, Graham Swift, Hugo Williams and Allan Massie to the British public. His books include poetry collections, biographies, travel books and autobiography. He died in 2001.