Product Description
A collection of poetry by British poet, Arthur Boyars, who was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948. The volume contains selected early poems, and his later ones, from 2003 to 2009. The striking way the poet finds his muse is that the poems come to him after a long time of incubation in the unconscious mind. When they finally reach the surface, they can be written down, as it were, from an inner dictation.
About the Author
Arthur Boyars, born 1925, is a British poet and musicologist, who is also a translator and critic, literary editor, and publisher. His first collection, Poems, was published in 1944. He founded, with John Wain, the magazine Mandrake, while at Wadham College, Oxford. He is also known as a translator of Russian poetry, and toured widely with Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He became the second husband to Marion Lobbenberg, who in partnership with John Calder, founded the publishing house Calder & Boyars and later, Marion Boyars Publishers. Together they published some of the protean writers of their time, including Georges Bataille, Elias Canetti, Julio Cortázar, Ivan Illich, Ken Kesey. Kenzaburo Oe and Hubert Selby Jr.