The Zoo of the New
A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon
$30.55
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2018
Summary
Full of cherished classics and new surprises, an anthology of two beloved poets’ favourite verse from the last 500 years
In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. They have looked for those poems which see most clearly, which speak most vividly, and which have meant the most to them as readers and writers. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392493 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141392495 |
| Author: | Nick Laird, Don Paterson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Particular Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 403g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Nick Laird
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in Co. Tyrone. His poetry collections, published by Faber and Faber, are To a Fault (2005), On Purpose (2007) and Go Giants (2013). He has been awarded the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is the author of two novels and lives between New York and London.
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry collections with Faber and Faber include Nil Nil (1993), God’s Gift to Women (1997), Landing Light (2003), Rain (2009) and 40 Sonnets (2016). He has also published translations of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and all three Forward Prizes; he is currently the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009.
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