Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis

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Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis

'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony Powell Kingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign), and old age. Collected Poems, arranged chronologically, shows the full range of his sparkling verse, by turns scabrous and melancholy, satirical and playful. 'Scathingly funny ... bawdy and tragic, unflinching and unapologetic, culpable and morally acute ... Amis's poems rush headlong into the messiness of life' New Criterion 'A contender for the title of the most accomplished and least self-satisfied poet of his generation' Clive James
Amis has no faultsHe is clever, witty, ironical * Guardian *
Accomplished, literate and entertaining -- Clive James * New Statesman *
'Bare-knuckled, witty, light but never 'lite', outward-looking instead of inward-gazing - a kind of red-blooded vers de société' -- David Yezzi * The New Criterion *
Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the sucess of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award; The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize; and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book. He wrote ephemerally on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990.
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ISBN 13 9780141194219
ISBN 10 0141194219
Title Collected Poems
Author Kingsley Amis
Series Penguin Modern Classics
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2022-04-07
Number of pages 160
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