Gavin Bantock's challenging new poem is written in the form of an Euclidean theorem. It sets forth a proposition, often in a sharply satirical and polemic vein, for world peace. Mr. Bantock is 'not afraid to think big, to stick out his neck, and to write of man's fragile vanity', as Kevin Crossley-Holland wrote of "Juggernaut". In "Eirenikon", his account of mankind's pollution both of the world and himself, is violent and disturbing; but it is finally a humanistic poem written for love of man - with vigour, humour, irony and a striking originality of style and method.
- ISBN10 0900977892
- ISBN13 9780900977893
- Publish Date November 1972 (first published 30 June 1972)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 August 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
- Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
- Edition Limited signed ed (50)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English