Simon Smith

Broschiertes Buch

11781 W. Sunset Boulevard

Beschreibung

"You could study an Ordnance Survey map of the route or you could make annotations concerning Dickens' association with Chatham and many other points, but Smith's skill in assimilation will always be ahead of you, partly because it assimilates ruthlessly to his own present tense, and partly because total assimilation is refused in favour of sheer presence.' -Peter Riley, The Fortnightly Review "The Waste Land may have been smoothed to automatic for the iPad, but Simon Smith's Gravesend makes the South-East coast of Dickens and Conrad a place worth missing connections again. All the digital landfill of one London poet's life is here, not to mention a book-stopping tribute to Cy Twombly. Line by line, Smith is one of the most exciting poet writing in England: if it weren't for the sweet Thames and the Little Chefs, he might pass for an American." -Jeremy Noel-Tod

Autor

Simon Smith has published eleven collections of poetry. His third, Mercury (Salt Publications), was long-listed for the Costa Prize in 2007. A selected poems, More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2016, and his latest books are Last Morning (Parlor Press) and Source (Muscaliet Press) with Felicity Allen published in 2022. His translations of Catullus were published by Carcanet as The Books of Catullus (2018). He appeared on the 'In Our Time' programme on BBC Radio 4 in 2020 to talk about Catullus and translation.Between 2006 and 2022 Simon Smith taught poetry, translation and creative writing at the University of Kent, London South Bank University and the Open University. In 2009 he was a Hawthornden Writing Fellow, and a judge of the National Poetry Prize in 2004. From 1991-2007 he worked at The Poetry Library in London, becoming Librarian from 2003-2007. He is now a co-editor for the magazines Free Verse and Blackbird, both online. He is presently also translating a selection of poems by Du Fu and completing editing projects related to Paul Blackburn.He is a writer who lives in London and on the Kent Coast.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 111g
• ISBN-13: 9781848613225
• ISBN-10: 1848613229
• Artikelnr.: 40210502