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New and Selected Poems

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title New and Selected Poems
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ian Duhig
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 152
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781529070804
ClassificationsDewey:821.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 11 November 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Ian Duhig's effortlessly fascinating and endlessly quotable verse has had a shaping influence on UK poetry for more than thirty years. This eclectic gathering of Duhig's best work draws on material from his acclaimed debut, The Bradford Count, to the present day: the book collects a number of fine new pieces, including an elegy for the late Ciaran Carson. Duhig is contemporary poetry's social historian; he has wise and powerful things to say about the relationship between community and family, racism and justice, place and folklore, music and language. For Duhig fans, the book will offer a mesmerising retrospective of the career one of our most highly regarded poets; for those yet to discover him, New and Selected Poems represents a marvellous introduction to a radical social conscience, an archivist of strange tales, and one of the most skilful writers now at work.

Author Biography

Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer and he is still actively involved with minority and marginalised groups on artistic projects. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Cholmondeley Award recipient, Duhig has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize four times. He lives in Leeds with his wife Jane.

Reviews

The most original poet of his generation -- Carol Ann Duffy * Guardian * 'Duhig telescopes topical allusions, scholarly references and coarse humour into tightly-shaped, surreal poems which burst open with explosive moral force' -- Alan Brownjohn * Sunday Times * 'His poetry is learned, rude, elegant, sly and funny, mixing gilded images, belly-laughs and esoteric lore about language (including Irish), art, history, politics and children's word-games' -- Ruth Padel * Independent on Sunday * . . .one of Duhig's charms is that, for all his learning, he retains humility -- Kathryn Gray * Magma Review * Ian is a one-off, a true original. -- Jackie Kay * Herald *