- Mass Market Paperback: 63 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; First edition. Pbk edition (1976)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140422048
- ISBN-13: 978-0140422047
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.4 x 0.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,462,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Impossibly romantic and optimistic, miraculously avoiding gloom and didacticism to achieve a continuously surprising and euphoric surface … related to … classic simplicity of line. (Andrew Duncan )
This is ‘out and about’ poetry, inhabiting Cambridge pubs and Eastern European streets, embracing non-sequiturs and apparently-random thoughts into the smooth thought-flow of event and image and speculation. There’s a libidinal energy which resists gloom (hatred of the meagre portion/even the bars are closed when we leave the cinema) and the occasional break into what could almost be song lyric. (Steve Spence Terrible work )
John James is an extremely enjoyable and charismatic poet. His work is like a vigorous breath of fresh air, full of variety, humour and surprise. It has a strong sense of lyricism and energy, a striking mixture of the experimental and the immediate that brings to mind the work of Mayakovsky or the New York poets of the 1950s and 60s. (Charles Bainbridge The Guardian )
This is ‘out and about’ poetry, inhabiting Cambridge pubs and Eastern European streets, embracing non-sequiturs and apparently-random thoughts into the smooth thought-flow of event and image and speculation. There’s a libidinal energy which resists gloom (hatred of the meagre portion/even the bars are closed when we leave the cinema) and the occasional break into what could almost be song lyric. (Steve Spence Terrible work )
John James is an extremely enjoyable and charismatic poet. His work is like a vigorous breath of fresh air, full of variety, humour and surprise. It has a strong sense of lyricism and energy, a striking mixture of the experimental and the immediate that brings to mind the work of Mayakovsky or the New York poets of the 1950s and 60s. (Charles Bainbridge The Guardian )
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John James is one of the most highly respected poets of his generation. In this volume all his major works are gathered together from Mmm … Ah Yes (1967) to Schlegel Eats a Bagel (1996). In addition, a number of hard to obtain poems are also reprinted, including A Former Boiling (1979) and The Ghost of Jimi Hendrix at Stokesay Castle (1988).
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Some of the most beautiful poetry I have read in a long time (in, I might add, a beautifully produced book). Strange, gnomic, moving, unique, funny, but most of all, again, beautiful. James deserves a much wider audience; reading these remarkable poems I can see his appeal stretching from the more experimental sectors of British poetry (where he is usually found) to a much wider audience that might (or might not) be termed "mainstream". I would be very surprised if a better book of poetry appeared this year.
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