127pp. Friendly inscription from Markham for Scott Verner, editor of Poetry London, who has marked the fore edge SATORI (the name of his boat) in felt tip. Surface abrasion at tail of rear cover as from the removal of a price sticker.

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Title

Human Rites: Selected Poems 1970-1982

Publisher

Anvil Press, London

Publication Date

1984

Language

English

ISBN 10

085646113X

ISBN 13

9780856461132

Binding

Card Wrappers

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Very Good

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Signed by Author(s)

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`Human Rites' presents a varied selection of poems by E.A. Markham, whose work has gained many admirers both in Britain and abroad in recent years. By bringing together poems from several small-press publications and including recent and uncollected material, `Human Rites' illustrates all aspects of his considerable range. Markham's imagination is allied to a strong sense of reality, and imbued with a deep sense of comedy. His work encompasses explorations of his West Indian background, love poems, poems on historical, social and political themes, and his special brand of ironic humour in the `Lambchops' poems which are as effective on the page as they are in performance at poetry readings. He is, as Gavin Ewart wrote of `Love, Politics & Food' (1982), `a writer of great intelligence and vitality' who `can command a very powerful wry political comment.'

About the Author

E.A. Markham was born on the West Indian island of Montserrat in 1939. He is a graduate in English and Philosophy, has taught in England, built houses in France and directed the Caribbean Theatre Workshop in the West Indies. In the 1970s he held a Creative Writing fellowship at Hull College of Higher Education and a C. Day Lewis Fellowship in Brent.

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