- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (22 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571204643
- ISBN-13: 978-0571204649
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 360,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A thoroughly illuminating anthology...a welcome treasure trove.' Times Educational Supplement"
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Since becoming Poet Laureate in 1999, Andrew Motion has been tireless in his efforts to raise the profile of poetry. In this wonderful new anthology, he has brought together an extraordinary range of poems, exemplifying his belief that, if we let it, poetry has a unique power to enrich our lives as it diversifies them. The poems are arranged in a series of ten concentric rings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each section is distinct, but seeks out resemblances and echoes elsewhere, creating the impression of an endlessly expanding universe. From Wallace Stevens to Stevie Smith, Joseph Brodsky to Jo Shapcott, Bob Dylan to Dylan Thomas, Ben Jonson to Benjamin Zephaniah, Here to Eternity provides a perfect introduction for new readers and offers surprising connections and revelations to those who are already well-versed.
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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful
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I dip in and out of this book quite regularly, looking for poems I might have missed, looking for poems in forms I'm trying to write in, and I continue to find little gems.
Those people who don't like Motions own poetry need not worry about buying this book, because there are no works by him.
There are 10 sections, which he's called ten rings, echoing out, expanding, but maintaining a theme. They are: Self, Home, Town, Land, Work, Love, Travel, War, Belief, and Space. So from Louis MacNeice's Prayer before Birth to Henry Vaughan's The World. He's restricted the sections so that a poet would not have more than 1 poem in each section, and no poet has more than 5 entries (except that old joker Anonymous).
Some of my favorite poets are here, like Plath, Heaney, Blake, and of course the big man, WS. But thankfully the anthology is not overrun with people like WS and Wordsworth, like so many anthologies are, because he's restricted them. There are ALOT of poets put into this anthology, which many anthologies don't bother with because they're not big names. But for readers of poetry who get bored of the same old stuff, there's new life in this one.
I've been pleased with this treasure trove anthology and it will certainly be on my shelf for many years to come.
Those people who don't like Motions own poetry need not worry about buying this book, because there are no works by him.
There are 10 sections, which he's called ten rings, echoing out, expanding, but maintaining a theme. They are: Self, Home, Town, Land, Work, Love, Travel, War, Belief, and Space. So from Louis MacNeice's Prayer before Birth to Henry Vaughan's The World. He's restricted the sections so that a poet would not have more than 1 poem in each section, and no poet has more than 5 entries (except that old joker Anonymous).
Some of my favorite poets are here, like Plath, Heaney, Blake, and of course the big man, WS. But thankfully the anthology is not overrun with people like WS and Wordsworth, like so many anthologies are, because he's restricted them. There are ALOT of poets put into this anthology, which many anthologies don't bother with because they're not big names. But for readers of poetry who get bored of the same old stuff, there's new life in this one.
I've been pleased with this treasure trove anthology and it will certainly be on my shelf for many years to come.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of the most imaginative and stimulating poetry anthologies available at the moment: the organisation of the poems selected is intriguing [and you'll have to buy a copy to find out about that] - the range of poems is splendid, with a well-nigh perfect balance struck between the conflicting claims of familiarity and freshness, tradition and contemporaraneity. Forty-two out of ten [just to annoy purist mathematicians, who might benefit quite a lot from this book, anyway].
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Interesting and varied choice of poetry, thoughtfully chosen. A valuable addition to any poetry collection.
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