Writing to the Moment: Essays 1980-86 by Tom Paulin

Writing to the Moment: Essays 1980-86 by Tom Paulin

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A collection of essays, reviews and introductions - many with a marked political slant - plus some overtly political writings, by a poet and critic who is also a champion of British and Irish dissent. Northern Ireland looms large, but Paulin's main concern is with artistic excellence.

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Writing to the Moment: Essays 1980-86 by Tom Paulin

A collection of essays, reviews and introductions - many with a marked political slant - plus some overtly political writings, by a poet and critic who is also a champion of British and Irish dissent. Northern Ireland looms large, but Paulin's main concern is with artistic excellence.
TOM PAULIN was born in Leeds in 1949 but brought up in Belfast. He taught English at Nottingham University from 1972-1994. His many books of poetry range from A State of Justice in 1977, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, to The Wind Dog in 1999, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He also writes non-fiction and plays, including The Riot Act: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (1984). He lives in Oxford.
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ISBN 13 9780571175826
ISBN 10 0571175821
Title Writing to the Moment: Essays 1980-86
Author Tom Paulin
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 1998-10-16
Number of pages 320
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