Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders

Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders

This first collection by New Poetries poet and Telegraph poetry editor is at once brilliantly witty in language and formal ambition, and wryly dark in its themes.

'Tristram Fane Saunders is a joyfully idiosyncratic new voice in contemporary poetry; cultured, wry, formally adept, and adroitly musicalBut what I love most is the deep compassion beneath the play. Many of these poems seek remedy for their suffering beloveds, only to be openly frustrated by their own limitations. These moments of radical kindness and vulnerability completely floored me, and make this a collection to cherish.' - Fiona Benson; 'Before We Go Any Further would be a striking debut on the strength of its formal confidence and original phrasemaking alone; but what separates it from the competition is its shamelessly bold return to a poetry of the imagination, to poetry's old tradition of making it new. These poems see it as their business to make connections, shed light and extend their empathies into the world; that they do so with such originality and flair makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and invigorating first collections I've read in a long time.' - Don Paterson

Tristram Fane Saunders lives in London and works as a journalist. He is the author of five pamphlets and one poetry collection, Before We Go Any Further (Carcanet, 2023), and is the editor of Edna St Vincent Millay: Poems and Satires (Carcanet, 2021). His poems have appeared in The TLS, The White Review and Poetry Ireland Review.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781800173255
ISBN 10	1800173253
Title	Before We Go Any Further
Author	Tristram Fane Saunders
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2023-06-29
Number of pages	84
Prizes	Short-listed for The Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2024
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.