The poems in Imagined Rooms invite the reader in Philip Gross’s words `to take it all in’. Written between the 1970s and the start of the Clinton and Blair era, they display a voracious imagination, a freedom with language and a hard-bitten compassion. A worthy companion to Keeping Time, also published by Salt, Imagined Rooms is global in its outlook, making what was once strange or distant immediate and present. It offers a view on a world where there is no place to hide and where, in Dooley’s paraphrase of Jaccottet, the poet’s role is to name and look out for `every item left at risk’.
- ISBN10 1844717704
- ISBN13 9781844717705
- Publish Date 15 September 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Salt Publishing
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 84
- Language English
- URL http://saltpublishing.com/products/imagined-rooms-9781844717705