Collected Poems: Volume One 1968-1997 by Peter Finch Paperback Book

Description: Collected Poems by Peter Finch, Andrew Taylor, Nerys Williams Peter Finch has developed his particular poetics for fifty years. His blending of the avant-garde, concrete, visual, sound and more conventional forms makes him a central figure in British poetry, bridging the experiments of the sixties with todays social concerns. His Collected Poems provokes and shocks, but engages through humour and empathy. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The two volumes of Peter Finchs Collected Poems chart the course of a remarkable writing career. After reading Allen Ginsbergs Howl as a young man Finch was inspired to become a poet, found the Second Aeon magazine and publishing house, and become a poetry entrepreneur, bringing to all these things an unquenchable vitality which set him apart in contemporary poetry.This first volume makes available poems from long lost chapbooks, broadsheets and limited editions, as well as more conventionally published work. Here are concrete poems, sound poems, typographical poems, visual poems, poems in cartoon form or as crumpled photocopies. Whatever their form, Finchs poems are always vivid and alive, pulsing with inventive energy. As he says himself, this is work which pushes the idea on until it breaks, flowers, or dissolves. It means that Finchs writing can never be taken for granted.The Collected Poems is also a restless exploration of the ideas behind the poems. It is a testament to the experimental in literature, to ways of doing it differently, and to an alternative modernist culture in Wales and Britain. Consequently, invaluably, they also open a window on a poetry scene seemingly lost from view to the twenty-first century. They remind us that there was interesting and vital writing happening outside of what has calcified into the canon of twentieth century British poetry. And that Finch was at its cutting edge with poets like Bob Cobbing and Henri Chopin Paul.Editor Andrew Taylor has included an informative Introduction, a timeline of Finchs artistic activity, and helpful notes. The book is completed by poet Nerys Williams appreciative Foreword. Author Biography Peter Finch is a poet, writer, performer, walker and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff. He has been a publisher, organisation manager, periodical editor, event organiser, literary agent and literary promoter. He was at the forefront of the UKs small press revolution in the 60s and the 70s with his magazine Second Aeon and pioneered performance poetry in Wales during the 1980s. From 1974 to 1995 he ran the Oriel Bookshop in Cardiff. From 1996 to 2011 he was Chief Executive of Yr Academi Gymreig / The Welsh Academy, an organisation which was later rebranded as Literature Wales.He specialises in books about the Welsh capital including the successful Real Cardiff series (4 volumes, most recently Real Cardiff: The Flourishing City), Edging The Estuary and the more recent Edging The City, and The Roots Of Rock From Cardiff To Mississippi And Back. His latest books written alongside the work of photographer John Briggs are Walking The Valleys and Walking Cardiff.If Finch is anything from all the above he is also a poet. His numerous poetry titles include Zen Cymru, Useful, Poems for Ghosts, Food and Selected Later Poems and The Machineries of Joy from Seren, Antibodies from Stride, and Vizet, a selected poems in Hungarian from Kronkét Könyvek. Important work from across the last fifty years were brought together in his two volume Collected Poems which was published in 2022. Review "Since the early 1970s, Finch has been the principal innovator in Welsh poetry... he deserves a Welsh knighthood." – Richard Kostelanetz,Dictionary of the Avant-Garde. "For 40 years he has been the Welsh avant-garde, as inventive and as indispensable as he has been consistently undervalued and ignored... one of the few Welsh writers capable of entrancing young students with his verbal chutzpah, his Crazy Gang of words. Henffych, Peter: a hir oes eto ich egni ac ich dawn." – M. Wynn Thomas. Details ISBN1781726701 Author Nerys Williams Pages 496 Publisher Poetry Wales Press Year 2022 ISBN-10 1781726701 ISBN-13 9781781726709 Format Paperback Imprint Seren Place of Publication Bridgend Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 50 black and white image poems AU Release Date 2022-05-30 NZ Release Date 2022-05-30 Publication Date 2022-05-30 UK Release Date 2022-05-30 Subtitle Volume One 1968-1997 Edited by Andrew Taylor DEWEY 821.92 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135414763;

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