Peter Porter said that 'a new book from Ewart is indispensible'. Sadly this is the last volume, but it provides a feast of entertainment, virtuosity and profundity from the best work of our premier poet of light verse. 'The fizz of his technical inventiveness is unabated. . . There are tender as well as rude poems on sex, bluntly honest meditations on death and old age, and affectionate poems of family life. . . All entertaining, humane and irresistibly readable. ' Fleur Adcock 'The most remarkable phenomenon of the English ...
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Peter Porter said that 'a new book from Ewart is indispensible'. Sadly this is the last volume, but it provides a feast of entertainment, virtuosity and profundity from the best work of our premier poet of light verse. 'The fizz of his technical inventiveness is unabated. . . There are tender as well as rude poems on sex, bluntly honest meditations on death and old age, and affectionate poems of family life. . . All entertaining, humane and irresistibly readable. ' Fleur Adcock 'The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene during the last ten years or so has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart. ' Philip Larkin 'He is compulsively readable, and from a rather bitter isolation makes devastatingly funny comments on contemporary manners. ' Stephen Spender
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Good in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book N.B. EX LIBRARY. In protective library sleeve. Several library stamps and stickers.
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Very Good. 1996. 1st Edition. Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects-Poetry, Drama & Criticism-Poetry-By Period-20th Century, Subjects-Poetry, Drama & Criticism-Poetry-General". Not a first edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.