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By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry Aidan Semmens

By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry By Aidan Semmens

By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry by Aidan Semmens


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A collection of poems that will surprise the reader: Suffolk natives, incomers and visitors are all represented. From Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey via George Crabbe to Michael Hamburger and R.F. Langley, both the range and the quality of the work selected will excite the reader.

By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry Summary

By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry by Aidan Semmens

'Here, where Time brings pasture to the sea' - the eminent Victorian A.C. Swinburne, from whose long work about the lost city of Dunwich this collection takes its title, was not the first or last poet to be struck by the landscape, and history, of Suffolk. Until almost within living memory Suffolk was a farming-fishing place, not all that far from London, yet strangely remote. Perhaps for this reason its coast was already something of a haven for writers and artists before Benjamin Britten made Aldeburgh the base for his annual music festival. The county's climate appeared to make artists and writers, as did its superb medieval architecture and its huge band of sea. This collection of poems past and modern is powerful testimony of that, all of it both contained and released, created in and, to various extents, by Suffolk. This is a collection of poems that will surprise the reader: Suffolk natives, incomers and visitors are all represented. From older times come Algernon Charles Swinburne, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Ann Candler, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, George Crabbe, Robert Bloomfield and Bernard Barton. From modern times we have-listed in order of appearance-Andy Brown, Angela Leighton, Tamar Yoseloff, Ronald Blythe, Victor Tapner, Pauline Stainer, John Matthias, Wendy Mulford, Claire Crowther, R.F. Langley, Andrew Brewerton, Rodney Pybus, Charlotte Geater, Zoe Skoulding, Deryn Rees-Jones, Aidan Semmens, Michael Laskey, Herbert Lomas, Anne Beresford, Will Stone, Richard Caddel and Michael Hamburger.

About Aidan Semmens

Aidan Semmens, the editor of this anthology, is a freelance journalist and photographer who has lived in Suffolk since 1995. He co-edited the magazine Perfect Bound in 1977-78 and his first pamphlet of poetry was printed at that time in the National Poetry Society basement. His first full-length collection, A Stone Dog (Shearsman 2011), included the poem On The Pleasure Beach, written in 2001, to which one of the poems included in this volume is a sequel; his second book is a sequence of 'distressed' sonnets, The Book of Isaac (Parlor Press / Free Verse Editions 2012).

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NLS9781848612853
9781848612853
1848612850
By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry by Aidan Semmens
New
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Shearsman Books
20130614
128
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