The Knotting Poems by Martin Booth

The Knotting Poems by Martin Booth

In 1977 and 1981, Martin Booth-then a poet and small-press publisher, but today better-known as a novelist-published two collections of work about Knotting, the Bedfordshire village where he then lived: The Knotting Sequence and The Cnot Dialogues. The books were published in fine, limited-run editions by The Elizabeth Press in New Rochelle, New York, and few copies travelled across the Atlantic. Indeed, the second of the two books was one of the final books to be published by Elizabeth and received only limited distribution. Here we have spliced the two books together, otherwise unchanged.

Martin Booth (1944-2004) was a British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and founded the Sceptre Press. He was born in Lancashire, but was brought up mainly in Hong Kong, and left for Britain in 1964. He first made his name as a poet and as a publisher, producing slim volumes by British and American poets. His own books of verse include the two Knotting books collected in this volume, as well as Killing the Moscs and Meeting the Snowy North Again. In the late 1970s Booth turned mainly to writing fiction. His first successful novel, Hiroshima Joe, was published in 1985. The book is based on what he heard from a man he met as a boy in Hong Kong and contains passages set in that city during the Second World War. His lifelong interest in observing and studying wildlife resulted in a book about Jim Corbett, a big-game hunter and expert on man-eating tigers, and also a study of the endangered rhino. Many of Booth's works were linked to the British imperial past in China, Hong Kong and Central Asia. He was also fond of the United States, and of Italy, which features in his novel A Very Private Gentleman (1990; later filmed as The American, starring George Clooney, in 2010). These interests form a thread through his later novels, travel books and biographies. His novel, Industry of Souls, was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize. He died of cancer in Devon in 2004, shortly after completing Gweilo, a memoir of his Hong Kong childhood written for his own children.

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ISBN 13	9781848615953
ISBN 10	1848615957
Titel	The Knotting Poems
Autor	Martin Booth
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Shearsman Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2018-10-19
Seitenanzahl	116
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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