Selected Poems by Martin Richards
Retirement to the island of Anglesey, combined with his final illness, led to a late flowering in the poetry of Martin Richards. Attentive to the passing seasons and deeply connected to place, these are poems schooled in the art of haiku. With delicacy and precision, they blend the steady pace of island life with the natural world's wonders - grasshoppers falling silent in the garden, bitterns invisible in reeds - to touch on the mysteries of human relationships; the bonds of friendship, family and inheritance. A prolific translator of European poets as well as of the ancient Chinese and Japanese masters, Richards forged a style that combines these riches with a distinctively Welsh air. This volume gathers the final moments of a lifetime's poetic endeavour.
Martin Richards was born in Liverpool in 1950, to a Welsh father and a German-Armenian mother. He was educated at Cambridge and Leeds Universities, before becoming an English teacher. The one collection of poems printed in his lifetime was the mountain / deep as a lake / yes (1980). In 2010 he passed away, leaving behind the wealth of unpublished poems selected in this volume.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908058966 |
| ISBN 10 | 190805896X |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | Martin Richards |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penned in the Margins |
| Year published | 2015-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 190 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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