New Selected Poems
John Ash author James Womack editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:29th Oct '26
Should be back in stock very soon
This New Selected Poems brings together work from all of John Ash’s published volumes, from Casino (1978) to In the Wake of the Day (2010). It builds on Ash’s own Selected Poems (1996) to give for the first time an overview of his entire career, his movements from Manchester to the US and then Istanbul, and reveals the extent and variety of his poetic interests, as well as the consistency of his poetic voice. In doing so, it reinforces the idea that Ash may in some ways have fulfilled the title bestowed on him by Poetry magazine: ‘the best English poet of his generation’.
‘Ash’s poetry [...] is resonant with gorgeous imagery that distracts one from the super-lucid, rational argument that quietly continues to assert itself. It seems both familiar and strange, noble and funny, romantic and level-headed.’
John Ashbery
‘Since I was a young writer, I have been beguiled by the work of John Ash. Even now I can quote lines, even whole poems, so deeply have they entered my life as a reader of poetry, guiding lights for phrase and possibility. It is a joy to open Ash’s New Selected Poems and meet these old poem friends again.’
David Morley
‘I cannot imagine my own inner life or the landscape of later twentieth-century British poetry without John Ash – a fierce intelligence and a gentle spirit, so outward looking and celebratory of the beautiful, complex world while remaining under no illusions as to its bitter histories and our place within them.’
Luke Kennard
ISBN: 9781800175846
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316 pages