Selected Poems by Peter Sansom
Peter Sansom's Selected Poems brings together twenty years of quintessential Sansom, a poet who has made the local and familiar his own resonant territory. Supermarkets and darts matches, life with teenagers and family funerals, the common ground of modern life, make up the fabric of poems that capture the distinctiveness of the ordinary with a robust and sharp-eyed tenderness. Selected Poems includes revised versions of poems from Peter Sansom's four Carcanet collections, with poems from his 2009 pamphlet The Night is Young.
..witty, realistic and imaginative. Auden, Hayden and Uccello live in his pages as happily as snooker stars, Tesco and Extra Strong Mints Peter Porter, Observer ...a mature assurance which results in poems that are always entertaining and frequently something more Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian ...brilliant at evoking the tender details of a working-class childhood in the 1960s - 'after the war and before give peace a chance' Andy Croft, Morning Star
Peter Sansom is the director of the Poetry Business and the editor of the North Magazine and Smith/Doorstop Books. He is the author of Everything You've Heard is True and January and the recipient of the Arts Council Literature Award. He has contributed poems to a number of publications, including the Guardian and the Observer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847770646 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847770649 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | Peter Sansom |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 92 |
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