All of Us The Collected Poems

"Better known for his short stories, Raymond Carver was also an accomplished poet, as this superbly presented collection attests" -- Anthony Quinn Harpers & Queen "The cumulative effect is exhilarating: happiness, yes, but about as far as you can get from the bland, cosmic gruntlement currently being peddled by so many American poets" Times Literary Supplement "A year after the American writer's abrupt death, Salman Rushdie concluded a review of A New Path to the Waterfall, a final verse collection, by urging: 'Read everything Raymond Carver ever wrote.' It's very good advice" Irish Times "What is never lost - or lost sight of- is the primacy of experience and the most direct way of finding its expression... The urgency of the artist not to trivialise, but to find the essence; plain language in which to lay bare the terror and beauty of plain lives" -- John Harvey