Selected Poems

Roy Fuller, John Fuller, Neil Powell, John Fuller, Neil Powell

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781847771216
• eBook ISBN: 9781847776532
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids to the consolatory wisdom of poems written later in his life, Great Britain's Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with the author's tolerant humor and acute eye, reveal depths and dissonances from which a civilized life may be created. On the centenary of Fuller's birth, this generous selection—introduced by the poet's son and including an afterword by Neil Powell, Fuller's biographer—brings to a new generation of readers the work of one of the essential poets of the 20th century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• CONTENTS
• A NOTE ON THE TEXT
• PREFACE
• 1: 1938–1944
• 2: 1945–1962
• 3: 1963–1977
• 4: 1977–1989
• AFTERWORD
• INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
• About the Author
• Also available from Carcanet Press
• Copyright