Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work
and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets.
His politically edgy, cuttingly colloquial, muscular poetry poetry
shifted territory with time, from rural Yorkshire, America and
London to the war-ravaged Balkans and Eastern Europe (before and
after Communism). His early books span a transition from a
preoccupation with land and myth to his later engagement with urban
Britain and the politics of radical disaffection. The pivotal work
marking this shift was his long poem Fox Running (1980), brought to
recent attention when an archive recording of him reading it was
broadcast by BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please in 2016. His Collected
Poems brings together poetry from four decades, including all the
work from two earlier retrospectives, The Poet Reclining: Selected
Poems 1962-1980 (1982) and Shed: Poems 1980-2001 (2002), together
with the posthumously published You Again: last poems & other
words (2004). The book is introduced with essays by Roger Garfitt
and Jon Glover. Publication coincides with his 80th birthday and
with the 40th anniversary of the publication of Bloodaxe's first
title, Ken Smith's Tristan Crazy (1978).
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