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Selected Poems: Selected Poems: Peter Sansom
Author(s): Peter Sansom (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 29 Sept. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 120 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847770649
- ISBN-13: 9781847770646
Book Description
Peter Sansom’s Selected Poems brings together twenty years of quintessential Sansom, a poet who has made the local and familiar his own resonant territory. Supermarkets and darts matches, life with teenagers and family funerals, the common ground of modern life, make up the fabric of poems that capture the distinctiveness of the ordinary with a robust and sharp-eyed tenderness. Selected Poems includes revised versions of poems from Peter Sansom’s four Carcanet collections, with poems from his 2009 pamphlet The Night is Young.
Editorial Reviews
Review
…witty, realistic and imaginative. Auden, Hayden and Uccello live in his pages as happily as snooker stars, Tesco and Extra Strong Mints Peter Porter, Observer …a mature assurance which results in poems that are always entertaining and frequently something more –Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian
…brilliant at evoking the tender details of a working-class childhood in the 1960s – ‘after the war and before give peace a chance’ –Andy Croft, Morning Star
About the Author
Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. Carcanet published his first book in 1990. Among more recent titles are Selected Poems and Careful What You Wish For, which won him a Cholmondeley Award in 2016. He has also published Writing Poems (Bloodaxe, 1994, new edition 2024). For ten years Peter taught the MA Poetry at Huddersfield University, and he has been Fellow in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester Universities and Company Poet with M&S and The Prudential. With Ann Sansom he is one of the directors of The Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North and SmithDoorstop Books.
