A sweeping collection of poetry from one of Great Britain's most celebrated postwar writers. Bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe delves into the profound and personal world of poetry in this collection of two hundred poems written between 1950 and 1990. Culled from seven previously published volumes of verseand including twenty-one newly collected worksSillitoe employs wit, humor, aggression, and longing to take readers into the depths of his perceptions and philosophical musings. The compilation begins with Sillitoe's early poems, which first appeared in The Rats and Other Poems (1960) while the writer was at work on his acclaimed novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In ';Shadow' a castaway meets a gentleman whom he recognizes as his own death. Meanwhile, a temperate climate renders death powerless in ';Poem Written in Majorca.' And in ';Excerpts from ';The Rats',' themes of...
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