John Jordan: Selected Poems Anne Stevenson

John Jordan: Selected Poems Anne Stevenson"John Jordan was conscious of the general sense of malaise that pervaded post war Europe. Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow) [Others] are poems of pity and terror, and are truly haunting reflections on the nature of suffering, the mystery at the heart of forgiveness, and the question of redemption." from the Introduction by editor Hugh McFadden "These can be very dark poems full

He published seven books of poetry

the People's Choice Award and the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry

written in the hours before his execution

Fanning's love of philosophy is manifest in his homage to Plato

with poems translated by Anton Shammas

designs and aesthetics

Carrie Etter's poems have the economy of good jokes

to the Southern territories of his distant American past

was short-listed for the Forward Poetry Prize and received the German Literature Award

A fiction writer as well

County Galway

In Augustin's world the absurdities and the Gordian knots of existence are neatly unravelled with surprising nimbleness and with laughter