You Again: Last Poems & Other Words [Signed]

Ken Smith; Tom Pickard, Sean O'Brien, Michael Anania, Tony Connor, Judi Benson (Contributors)

ISBN 10: 1852246707 / ISBN 13: 9781852246709

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tarset, Northumberland, 2004

About this Item

168pp. Collection of poems including all the last poems of Ken Smith (1938-2003) as well as other uncollected work. Tributes from other poets, photographs, interviews and biographical notes. Illustrated green covers with orange lettering on front and spine. Few tiny spots on lower page edge corner. Gift inscription for Patricia & William signed by Judi (Benson) on first title page, dated 4 July 2004. The Oxley's neat ownership stamp also on this page. No other inscriptions. In near fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 015755

Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Again: Last Poems & Other Words [Signed]
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tarset, Northumberland
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852246707
• ISBN 13: 9781852246709
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by a Contributor

About this title

Synopsis

Ken Smith was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. He collected his poetry from four decades in two volumes, the second being Shed: Poems 1980-2001, published the year before his death in 2003.
You Again includes all his last poems as well as other uncollected work, along with tributes from other poets, photographs, a biographical portrait and interviews covering the whole range of his life and work.

About the Author

Ken Smith published 15 books with Bloodaxe. His second collected volume Shed: Poems 1980-2001 (2002) followed The Poet Reclining: Selected Poems 1962-1980 (1982), and houses his later collections Terra, Wormwood, The heart, the border, Tender to the Queen of Spain and Wild Root, along with new poems - but not the last poems now collected post-humously in You Again. Wild Root was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Smith also wrote books on Berlin and on his time as writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison. He received America's prestigious Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1997, and a Cholmondeley Award in 1998. Born and bred in Yorkshire, he lived in London for the last twenty years. He contracted Legionnaire's Disease in Cuba, and later died in hospital in London in June 2003.