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The Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some
historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these stories may
co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a
collage mirroring our own perception of the world. It is a mix that
can include Alexandria or China or Brighton or North Wales. These
interwoven stories insist on the acceptance of contradictions and
complexity in people and in life; a recognition characteristic of
Harwood's poetry and shaped by his acknowledged influences: Gide,
de Montherlant and Cavafy, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. In
Harwood's poems the richest material and tone is found in 'the
ordinary', and in The Orchid Boat this focus is thrown into even
greater relief as he explores the power and weight of memories.
Chanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan
Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood.
Translated as a labor of love over a ten year period the poems
encompass the full range of Tzara's works, the results of which
have brought Tzara's poetry to life for English language readers
for over 25 years. Completely revised, updated edition of this
classic survey.
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New Collected Poems (Paperback)
Lee Harwood; Edited by Kelvin Corcoran, Robert Sheppard
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Lee Harwood's work defines the poetry of an era that saw poetry
itself at its most exciting, expansive and innovative. His
achievement runs through the very core of these qualities and has
enriched the possibilities of poetry through to the present. As a
leading British poet well known for his unique but flexible voice,
speaking in a variety of forms, from direct lyric to elaborate
fictions, from notebook poems to conceptual found texts, from
complex cut-ups to assembled fragments. A restless innovator across
the decades he delighted in working in such a multiplicity of forms
and with a disarming directness that appeared to escape whatever
poetic rules may have been favoured on occasion. His voice is by
turns gentle and erudite, erotic and funny, moving and even
faux-sentimental. Discussions of contemporary poetry are left
incomplete without recognition of his considerable achievements.
From his earliest pamphlet 'title illegible' (1965) to his last
collection 'The Orchid Boat' (2014), 'New Collected Poems'
assembles all the poems (and creative prose) Harwood published in
pamphlet or book form, in broadly chronological order, fashioned
upon the ordering of Harwood's own 2004 'Collected Poems'. Some
excised poems have been restored and fugitive texts that appeared
in an exclusive edition have been included. Brief uncollected
material from the end of his career completes this rich body of
work. 'This new collection is a generously considered gathering of
resistant and supple fragments, hard evidence of a life truly
lived. We are the beneficiaries of these dazzling transfusions of
personality and circumstance. Of remembered and newly encountered
detonations of affect. "The clarity of such moments," Harwood
confesses, can never stay still, even when that seems to be the
required task. Love moves and shifts. Through repeated acts of
making, it coheres and continues.' -Iain Sinclair 'Lee Harwood's
English is like American English in that it lacks a strong sense of
possession. At the same time it has a pearly, soft-focus quality
one rarely sees in American poetry [...] The "great" poetry I like
best has this elf-effacing, translucent quality. Self-effacing not
from modesty but because it is going somewhere and has no time to
consider itself.' -John Ashbery 'Harwood's work returns to local
habitations and names, the lives of family, elegies for friends, to
direct communication among intimates. These vividly rendered,
plain-style evocations, intercut with speculation and emotion,
construct improvised holding environments where the home world and
the safety of loved ones is primary' -Peter Robinson, Times
Literary Supplement
This was Lee Harwood’s first major collection after his
remarkable sequence of Fulcrum volumes (The White Room, Landscapes
and The Sinking Colony) had established him as one of the most
interesting younger poets in the England. HMS Little Fox shows
Harwood striking out in new directions, some of which were not be
further developed, but it also shows evidence of his mature style.
Although available in the author’s Collected (Shearsman, 2004),
this volume faithfully reproduces the original edition, with its
postcard images, Egyptian sigils, and also one poem that the author
decided to exclude from his Collected.
To accompany Lee Harwood's new Selected Poems, we offer also this
book-length collection of interviews with Harwood by his long-time
friend and admirer, Kelvin Corcoran - himself also a Shearsman
author. An invaluable opportunity to "hear" Harwood talking about
poetry and about his own work.
In 2004, Shearsman published Lee Harwood's Collected Poems, which
proved what many of us had known for many years: that Harwood is
one of our living masters. Four years on, and we now offer a
smaller selection of his work, which will serve as an introduction
for new readers, covering the period from 1965 to 2007. While the
lion's share of the poems are drawn from the Collected, some new
poems are also featured.
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