{"product_id":"collected-sonnets-9781848616899","title":"Collected Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollected Sonnets \u003c\/em\u003egathers nine main sequences, along with extracts and fugitive pieces, from a 50-year span. It includes takes on poems from other languages and a large number of previously unpublished texts. Praised by Peter Porter in \u003cem\u003eThe Observer \u003c\/em\u003efor richly re-working Elizabethan elements, Selerie's sonnets have appealed equally to readers with a modernist bent. Standard themes--love, death, time, in land- and sea-scape--are given a radical slant. These poems grapple with emotions and ideas, shaped to give the personal public force. Motifs that emerge in individual sonnets also weave through the whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'What are forms?' asks Gavin Selerie teasingly towards the end of his \u003cem\u003eCollected Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e. Long an admirer of American examples by the likes of e.e. cummings, Ted Berrigan and Bernadette Mayer, Selerie re-injects a distinctive English intelligence and sensibility into the sonnet form, working staunchly through a plurality of configurations, subject matters and tones. What are sonnets? 'Only a frame and skin for the beating', 'a stretched square' or 'what's filled with moving'. This is a major and hugely rewarding book by one of the UK's most singular poets.\"--Jeff Hilson, editor, \u003cem\u003eReality Street Book of Sonnets \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Selerie is a poet of place, describing urban and rural settings with accuracy and craft ... he's a poet of relationships, creating tender lyrics ... and he's a restlessly experimental writer, always wanting to expand what a poem can do.\" --Ian McMillan, \u003cem\u003eShadowtrain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848616899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Gavin Selerie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42875211251893,"sku":"9781848616899","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_347fe3c8-b50c-49b7-a53c-2020319a0fc2.jpg?v=1684814947","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/collected-sonnets-9781848616899","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}