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Collected Poems (Paperback)

by Charles Causley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; 4th Revised edition edition (10 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330375571
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330375573
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 48,927 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This revised collection gathers together Charles Causley's poetry spanning a period of more than fifty years and includes his most recent unpublished work as well as some of his poems for children. 'There are poems in this superb volume that will shine for as long as there are humans to read them' - Kevin Crossley-Holland, "Times Educational Supplement". 'Almost everything in his "Collected Poems" communicates with instant, attention-seizing effect, and few living poets are so readily memorised ...hardly a page in this handsome volume fails to impress and enchant with technical virtuosity and unnerving imagination' - Alan Brownjohn, "Sunday Times".

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5.0 out of 5 stars the anonymous man, 9 Sep 2008
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This review is from: Collected Poems, 1951-92 (Paperback)
Melancholy now, to glance down this list of Causley's books: his rebranding as A Children's Poet. This is the only full collection which resembles the books of poems as they appeared (including many of the brilliant poems from the 1980s) and is a truly marvellous body of work. By contrast, the Picador collections are thematically arranged and targeted for school children, following the fate of equally strange (and deeply unfashionable) writers like Walter de la Mere back in the 1930s. It's as though a poet who's neither modernist nor a confessional, personal writer can't be incorporated into adult genres and discourses; the publishers run scared of publishing this stuff properly. Well, Causley's tradition ran back through Hardy, Housman, John Clare, Blake, to the medieval ballads, lyrics, laments...as well as Cornish sea-shanties and schoolyard songs. It's a tradition of pseudo-anonymity, relying on craft, pulse, and often something hallucinatory around the small stories and anecdotes, with the poet peering across the landscape and the years, to lives being lived elsewhere. Unlike Larkin, Amis et al, clever and sardonic, Causley's voice is level and gentle, with an often quietly aching tone, as if longing for those lives (usually of young men) he looks at, excluded (something else he shares with AE Housman). But there's also energy and wit, giving the poems tautness and fizz. Odd that a less interesting writer like RS Thomas (his near-contemporary) is still celebrated and properly published, but you'll have to search for good editions (like this one) of Causley's poems.
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