Poems by Alan Ross

Poems by Alan Ross

Cricket writer, author of acclaimed autobiographies, independent publisher, editor of the London Magazine, traveller, sportsman, Alan Ross was foremost a poet of high elegance, whose sixty years of work, from his commission in the Royal Navy in 1941 to his death in 2001, is selected and introduced in these pages by his friend David Hughes.

"Ross's poems are gentle, meditative, wide-ranging, scrupulous" IAN SANSOM "A continuous sense of creative daring" ROY FULLER
"The only poet I know who invariably makes good poems out of his travels" PETER PORTER

Alan Ross was born in Calcutta in 1922 and spent his childhood in Bengal. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II and was editor of the London Magazine for forty years, introducing the work of writers such as Paul Theroux, Graham Swift, Hugo Williams and Allan Massie to the British public. His books include poetry collections, biographies, travel books and autobiography. He died in 2001.

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ISBN 13	9781843432241
ISBN 10	1843432242
Title	Poems
Author	Alan Ross
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2005-09-15
Number of pages	304
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