Oxford Poets S. Series

Covering Charles Tomlinson's work over a period of thirty years, this volume reveals how his poetry moves continually between two poles--England and America, country and town, home and abroad, and nature and history. Tomlinson infuses his poetry with a special reverence for the natural world and a distaste for the human forces that inflict violence upon it. Revised and expanded, this new paperback edition now includes the poems that appeared in the collection, Notes from New York.

The Door in the Wall

by Charles Tomlinson

Published 1 September 1999

This is Charles Tomlinson's first new collection since 1989, and echoes many of the themes and scenes of Annunciations , which established him as a leading poet of landscape.

Annunciations

by Charles Tomlinson

Published 1 September 1999

This collection of poetry presents poems on such subjects as the American city and desert, the Canadian seaboard, a garden in Mexico that time and topography have undermined and another in Gloucestershire that careful hands have maintained. Charles Tomlinson's other works include "Collected Poems" and "The Return".

Selected Poems, 1955-97

by Charles Tomlinson

Published 1 September 1999

This is a substantial selection of Charles Tomlinson's poems, made by himself from all 14 of his books since 1955, up until "Jubilation" (1995), and including two poems written in 1997, his 70th year. Tomlinson is a much-travelled and widely-translated poet, particularly into Italian. In turn, he has translated many poets, notably Octavio Paz, and was the editor of "The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation". He writes above all about the English countryside (to which he always returns), but also travel, and foreign cities, and many poems are of walks and "conversations" with his fellow writers and friends.

The Return

by Charles Tomlinson

Published 17 September 1987

Charles Tomlinson, one of Britain's leading poets, returns in this book to the place his earliest poetry was written, the sea coast of Liguria. The poems in this volume provide the theme to which many of his other poems are variations, a return to places that have imprinted themselves most vividly on his mind: Italy, Provence, the American Southwest, and the Gloucestershire Valley, where all his journeys begin and end.

Jubilation

by Charles Tomlinson

Published 1 March 1995

Recently retired from his position as Emeritus Professor at Bristol University, the prolific and much translated poet Charles Tomlinson has entitled his latest collection Jubilation , a pun on the Spanish word jubilacion - meaning retirement. It is a book about staying young while getting older and about continuities provided by family life and shared interests. There are poems concerning travels in Japan, Portugal, and Italy and one expressly called Against Travel , a poem that signals the dialectic of the book - between roots and wandering, wandering and roots. This book is intended for usual poetry readers. Interest abroad (Italy, Spain, Germany) for translation.