The poet's own selection of some poems completed since his Collected Poems (published in 2007).
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'I think that of all the living poets whose work I know Anthony Thwaite speaks to me most strongly and intimately.' Michael Frayn - From reviews of Collected Poems (2007) 'This is spectacular poetry. It deserves to be read: good readers deserve to read it.' Tobias Hill, The Times 'It collects most of the verse from Thwaite's 50-plus years as a practitioner, and serves as an excellent reminder of his own great qualities as a poet ... an essential book which stands as testimony to a lifetime's exemplary thinking and subtle poetic craft.' Simon Baker, Spectator 'This Collected Poems is a most rewarding book and a handsome one.' Neil Powell, Sunday Telegraph
Corpse-Wood Approaching In Laconia Dirge Felled Inheritance
Terminal Pursuits Predictive In Camera Letting Go From an Old Notebook
Silence At a Loss Ancestors
Anthony Thwaite was born in 1930. He spent his childhood in Yorkshire, the USA (1940-44) and Somerset. After national service in Libya he read English at Oxford. He then married and went to Japan for two years, where he taught English Literature at Tokyo University. Since then he has been a BBC radio producer, literary editor of the Listener and the New Statesman, co-editor of Encounter, and in 1986 was chairman of the Booker Prize judges. He is a literary executor of Philip Larkin and the editor of his Collected Poems. He is a regular reviewer for The Guardian and other journals. In 1990 he was made an OBE for services to poetry.
