Scupham Borrowed Landscapes

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84777-945-8
Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 94 Seiten

Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscapre whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age shaped by the Suez crisis and the Cold War. The barbarities of the twentieth century haunt the shadows; there is comfort in the graces of domestic life, in friendships and long memories, in cats and gardens and eccentricities. A sequence of poems honours the life of a scholarly father-in-law who fought in the Great War. In a parallel autobiographical sequence, 'Playtime in a Cold City', three undergraduate years in the 1950s become a touchstone for a lost pastoral, before the 'fields of youth' fade to memory, 'the lit faces of dead friends, / laughing'. Generous, witty and shrewd, Borrowed Landscapes affirms Scupham's belief that when a 'murderous crew' of sorcerer's apprentices 'turn is to was', there is 'only a pen to turn was to is'.

Peter Scupham was born in Liverpool in 1933 and studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He founded the Mandeville Press with John Mole. He was given a Cholmondeley Award in 1996 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Peter Scupham has published a number of poetry collections with Oxford University Press and Anvil. Carcanet publish his Collected Poems (2003), and his edition of selections from Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (2005). He lives in Norfolk where he runs an antiquarian book business with Margaret Steward.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scupham, Peter