A Selection of the Poems of Laura Riding

Résumé du livre

In 1970 Laura (Riding) Jackson published with Faber her Selected Poems: in five sets, presenting a clutch of poems readers for the first time in the three decades since she renounced poetry, an act which challenges her readers still. In 1980 a new edition, with an important introduction, of the 1938 The Poems of Laura Riding was published by Carcanet. The poet said: My work poetic and other, early and later - has no allegiances, private, social, cultural. The point of it is, not modernism but What Further'. In 1993 First Awakenings: The Early Poems added substantially to the oeuvre. Now poet, critic and novelist Robert Nye, long time advocate of the poems, makes this substantial new introductory selection.