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Clive Wilmer: Selected Poems 1965–1993

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'If there were no affliction in the world, we might think we were in
paradise,' wrote Simone Weil. This suggests the themes of Clive Wilmer's third collection of poems, Of Earthly Paradise. Christian ideas of paradise refer to the things of this world, to nature and the human body, with art empowered to construct visions of that paradise. A related theme is work-Adam's curse when he fell, but a blessing when work becomes synonymous with art.

Wilmer, an outstanding formal poet, uses rhymed and metrical forms and also makes inventive use of free verse. Martin Dodsworth, reviewing an earlier collection Devotions in the Guardian, said: 'It is the work of an original and still developing mind, capable of the radical re-interpretations of tradition that poetry is about.'

Language: English

Pages: 136

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Release: January 01, 1995

ISBN: 1857541340

ISBN 13: 9781857541342

Clive Wilmer: Selected Poems 1965–1993

4/5 ( ratings)

'If there were no affliction in the world, we might think we were in
paradise,' wrote Simone Weil. This suggests the themes of Clive Wilmer's third collection of poems, Of Earthly Paradise. Christian ideas of paradise refer to the things of this world, to nature and the human body, with art empowered to construct visions of that paradise. A related theme is work-Adam's curse when he fell, but a blessing when work becomes synonymous with art.

Wilmer, an outstanding formal poet, uses rhymed and metrical forms and also makes inventive use of free verse. Martin Dodsworth, reviewing an earlier collection Devotions in the Guardian, said: 'It is the work of an original and still developing mind, capable of the radical re-interpretations of tradition that poetry is about.'

Language: English

Pages: 136

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Release: January 01, 1995

ISBN: 1857541340

ISBN 13: 9781857541342

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