Clive Wilmer’s New and Collected Poems begins with a fable about the building and destruction of a walled city; it ends with a translation of Mandelstam’s ‘Hagia Sophia’, in which the poet’s words construct the heavenly Jerusalem. Between the two is the work of four decades, dominated by wonder at the mortal and the sacred, and a passion for the order made by art. Alongside older poems, two new collections, King Alfred’s Book and Report from Nowhere, show Wilmer’s continuing engag...
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 328 ● ISBN 9781847776297 ● File size 1.1 MB ● Publisher Carcanet Poetry ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2661828 ● Copy protection Social DRM