New Light for the Old Dark
$27.94
- Paperback
72 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2010
Summary
An extraordinary first collection of poems from an assured new writer
The poems in this remarkable first collection have been hard won- ‘Fruits of much grief they are,’ as Donne said, ‘emblems of more.’ Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, Sam Willetts emerges now - suddenly, and apparently from nowhere - as a fully-fledged and significant English poet.
In a book deeply conscious of history, one series of poems tracks his mother’s escape, as a young girl, fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224089180 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224089188 |
| Author: | Sam Willetts |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 5mm |
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Sam Willetts has been through fire and come back, with his own improbable cantor’s quorum ready-assembled around him: mystic, junkie, dealer, truant child, Holocaust survivor, son, lover, brother - he is able to make them all sing, in poems of such fluency and force, such holy fortuity of phrasing, they make us want to celebrate even as they make us mourn. A natural like few others – Henry ShukmanThis letter is sheer poetry to the bard of no fixed abode * Sunday Times interview *
About The Author
Sam Willetts
Sam Willetts was born in 1962 and has spent most of his life in Oxford, where he read English at Wadham College, and in London. He has worked as a teacher, journalist and travel writer.
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