You Have a Visitor by William Wootten
You Have a Visitor is a book of songs and stories. Its 52 poems are arranged to reflect the English seasons. Yet its characters range from American students on a European vacation to a television-watching emperor, and its settings stretch from a space station to Renaissance Wittenberg. Intricately constructed, and employing a range of tight metres, stanza shapes and rhyme schemes, the poems delight in making use of traditional possibilities of English verse, and are, in the case of the lyrics, highly musical. They are also fresh and immediate. The result is a collection that is evocative, thought-provoking and very different from much poetry published in recent years.
William Wootten grew up in Somerset, lives in London, and teaches at the University of Bristol. He has written widely on modern poetry, his essays and book reviews appearing in publications such as the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He is also the author of the critical study, The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter (Liverpool University Press, 2015). His poems have appeared in magazines including PN Review, Poetry Review, the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. This is his first collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905208333 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905208332 |
| Title | You Have a Visitor |
| Author | William Wootten |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Worple Press |
| Year published | 2016-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 65 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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