Collected Poems 1972 - 2024: (working title) - Softcover

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911469827 ISBN 13: 9781911469827

Verlag: Arc Publications, 2025

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Prize-winning poet Kevin Crossley-Holland has been described by Philip Pullman as 'a master, a magician and commander of the language', a view that this eagerly-awaited Collected Poems will undoubtedly support.Kevin Crossley-Holland is a master, a magician and commander of the language, the roots of whose work are deeply entwined with ancient patterns of truth and knowledge. I salute and venerate him. PHILIP PULLMANKevin Crossley-Holland's Collected Poems is a serious achievement. Underpinning its variety of voices and perspectives is a consistent vision that finds expression in poems at once temporally palimpsestic and geographically grounded, crossing and re-crossing the fine line between the every day and myth. Like the 'blue hour' by which they are haunted, they are often elegiac, but always intensely present. JANE GRIFFITHSHe is a poet listening to his own history through the clamour of seabirds and gales and well-caught scraps of this and that which blow across the land. His language has been honed by the Norfolk and Suffolk climate itself and has the polish of split flint. RONALD BLYTHEWith a deep understanding of archaeology, a painterly eye for beauty, and a naturalist's commitment to sharp observation, Kevin Crossley-Holland has spent a lifetime mining the resources of elegy, myth, lyric, prayer, and dramatic monologue to form delicately crafted meditations on love and loss, time and memory, spiritual longing and emotional growth. LUCY NEWLYNThis is a fantastic collection, and I love it. His poetry is so very rich and so varied, and covers such an impressive amount of ground. There are anthems, war cries, memories, love songs and hymns to the glory of nature, all written in language that is clear, robust, and sometimes luminously, breathtakingly beautiful. JOANNE HARRIS

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Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning poet, children’s author, translator, librettist, and editor. He won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction prize, and his Arthur trilogy was translated into twenty-six languages. He is the author of The Penguin Book of Norse Myths, Arthur the Always King, and celebrated retellings of British folktales, and has translated Beowulf and many of the shorter Old English poems. His memoir of childhood, The Hidden Roads, revolving around the sanctity and splintering of family, is steeped in the landscape and layers of England, and was highly praised by Rowan Williams, while Philip Pullman has written of his work, “Kevin Crossley-Holland is a master, a magician and commander of the language, the roots of whose work are deeply entwined with ancient patterns of truth and knowledge. I salute and venerate him.”

He has collaborated with many leading composers and artists, including Sir Arthur Bliss, Nicola LeFanu, Bob Chilcott, Bernard Hughes and Charles Keeping, John Lawrence, Norman Ackroyd, Chris Riddell and Andrew Rafferty. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Authors, and an Honorary Fellow of Saint Edmund Hall, Oxford. His archive is housed in the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University. He has a Minnesotan wife, four children and nine grandchildren, and lives in North Norfolk.

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• Verlag: Arc Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1911469827
• ISBN 13: 9781911469827
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
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