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Graham MortThis new collection from Graham Mort selects work from five previous collections and adds a substantial section of new poems. From early lyrics focused in the natural world, he quickly developed his own distinctive narrative style, encompassing a sharp eye for detail, an acute grasp of character, and a wonderful ability to evoke atmosphere and situation. A distinguished and intellectually sustaining body of work, it does not forget that we also think through feeling, seeing and touching. Those qualities are augmented by a challenging moral heft and a sense of the consequence and implications of our actions in both personal and political domains.
Graham Mort has had a lengthy career as a freelance writer and artist in education, specialising in innovative combined arts projects. He has taught writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and Taliesin Trust and was director of studies for the Open College of the Arts. He lectures in Creative Writing at Lancaster University where he directs the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research and develops writing projects in Africa for the British Council. Amongst his many awards are the Cheltenham Poetry Competition first prize (twice), a major Eric Gregory Award, two Duncan Lawrie prizes in the Arvon Foundation International Poetry competition, and a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
“Mort is prepared to employ rhyme, half-rhyme and internal rhyme, and there are a couple of sonnets here. His control of the verse-line and the verse-paragraph are as impressive as his incisive way with words and images.” – Richard Poole, Planet on A Night on the Lash
“Mort has always been a master of technique, of ‘show not tell’, and his poems evoke the noises and smells of other countries, the unique atmosphere of other lives and times”. Anna Crowe,
"Graham Mort is acknowledged as one of contemporary verse´s most accomplished practitioners." - Sarah Crown, The Guardian
"A master technician, Mort forswears flash and glamour in favour of an architectural attention to the relationship between form and language, fitting words to lines with a dexterous fluency." - Sarah Crown, The Guardian
Published June 2007.
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ISBN : 9-781-85411-439-6 Pages : 194Popular titles from people who purchased this
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“No-one could call Mort’s work flashy in its appeal. It arises from a steady, scrupulous concentration on its subjects and a refusal to yield seriousness to effect. Time, place, relationships, tremors of change and unease make up much of his material. These are some of the staples of Poetry, but Mort’s quiet sense of the dramatic refreshes them, while a presiding background debate between hope and experience gives them a slow-release power to make the reader a re-reader.” Ruth Padel and Sean O’Brien, PBS Bulletin.
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