Day and Other Poems by Robert Wells
Meditating upon erotic and rural themes, this work culminates in a poetic affirmation of the unending power of language. The first section documents the poet's experience as an Exmoor forester; the second is a sequence set in the Sabine hills in central Italy; and the third takes as its theme erotic friendship.
'Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other..The healing loneliness of hills and waters, and the solitary figures who move among them...are the setting and characters of Wells' poems.' - George Mackay Brown. 'The greatest lyric poet of my generation' - Kathleen Raine.
ROBERT WELLS was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman on Exmoor, a teacher in Italy and Iran, and in publishing. He now lives in France. Carcanet published two books of poetry, The Winter's Task (1977) and Selected Poems (1986), and two verse translations, Virgil's Georgics (1982) and Theocritus's Idylls (1988).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857548600 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857548604 |
| Title | Day and Other Poems |
| Author | Robert Wells |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-04-27 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
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