| Autumn-Born in Autumn Contributor(s): Mead, Matthew (Author), Davis, Dick (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0856464007 ISBN-13: 9780856464003 Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2008 Annotation: Matthew Mead, born in 1924, has selected from his poetry of more than fifty years to create this new collection. One of few poets who responded to the predicaments of postwar Europe, Mead is also a lyric poet of great beauty and a sharp epigrammatist. Fellow poet Dick Davis appraises Mead's achievement in the book's afterword. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Matthew Mead began publishing his poetry in the 1960s. By then he had, as Peter Riley noted, located a sense of poetry for which he drew widely from Anglo-American writing, avoiding any programmes of allegiance.' Over the years he has published five collections of poetry. As he once wrote, I have tried not to avoid what has happened in poetry and psycho-politics during this 20th] century.' In his essay which is appended to this collection, Dick Davis analyses the special and uncommon qualities of Mead's poetry, concluding His tone is unmistakable, and once encountered it is never forgotten.' Matthew Mead was born in Buckinghamshire in 1924. He served in the British Army from 1942 to 1947 and since 1962 he has lived in Germany. Word for Word (Anvil, 2008) is a selection of the German poetry translations he has made with his wife Ruth, including such poets as Horst Bienek, Johannes Bobrowski and Heinz Winfried Sabais. |