Was and Is: Collected Poems

by Neil Powell

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Winner of the 2017 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Winner of the 2017 East Anglian Writers 'Book by the Cover' Award. There are two kinds of Collected Poems, one of which presents an author's work exactly as it first appeared volume-by-volume. This is the other sort. Neil Powell has re-examined his poems of the past fifty years, arranging them as nearly as possible in chronological order of completion while adding a rather larger handful of hitherto uncollected work. The resulting book is, on one level, the narrative of a lifetime in which certain themes, seen in changing lights, recur: landscape and seascape, music and poetry, friendship and the deaths of friends. Ranging from the playful to the elegiac, these poems are now able to resonate with each other in new and unexpected ways.
  • ISBN13 9781784102326
  • Publish Date 26 January 2017 (first published 4 January 1950)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 278
  • Language English