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Collected Poems (Paperback)

by Mervyn Peake (Author), Robert Maslen (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Fyfield Books (26 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857549716
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857549713
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 121,220 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Strangeness is where we live, and Mervyn Peake threads its mazes under slant moons and dark stars, unwinding a clew for us to follow.Russell Hoban


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It is forty years since the death of Mervyn Peake (1911-68), the author of the much-loved "Gormenghast" novels. To mark the anniversary this first comprehensive edition of Peake's poetry is published. Of the more than 230 poems in the collection, over 80 are printed for the first time. Peake emerges as a compelling poet, with an acute sense of his responsibilities as an artist, passionately engaged with current events, from unemployment in the 1930s to the horrors of the London Blitz and the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. He is also a fine love-poet and a sensitive observer of the human form. Readers who love the world of Peake's novels, and those who are new to his work, will discover here one of the great originals of the twentieth century.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mervyn Peake Collected Poems, 6 Feb 2009
By Araminta (Calstock, Cornwall) - See all my reviews
If you love Mervyn Peake, as I do, you will enjoy having this book in your collection. His words and pictures are wonderfully poignant. The man was a genius
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5.0 out of 5 stars Collected Poems, Mervyn Peake, 1 Sep 2009
By Mrs. R. Mullin (Devon) - See all my reviews
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Mervyn Peake was a genius and this book holds some very beautiful descriptive poetry. Many of the poems chart his life experience from war artist to his deep passionate love for Meave, his wife and mother of his children. Whilst as a war artist he entered Belson and there is a very powerful, sad and moving poem about watching a one of the concentration camp victims, a young woman die. This book is certainly worth checking out.

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