All the Poems: Collected Poems [Hardcover]

Muriel Spark (Author)

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Publication Date: Oct 28 2004

Muriel Spark was a poet before she was a novelist: All the Poems presents the full range of the poetry of one of the most acclaimed modern British writers. Here are villanelles, ballads and epigrams, as well as freer forms, all marked by brilliantly precise observation and command of her medium. Her poems are witty, idiosyncratic and haunting, transforming the familiar into glittering moments of strangeness, revealing the dark music beneath the mundane. The edge of danger and wry insights in Muriel Spark's poems are equally unforgettable. 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write poetic prose, but feel that my outlook on life and my perceptions of events are those of a poet, Whether in prose or verse, all creative writing is mysteriously connected with music and I always hope this factor is apparent throughout my work.' Muriel Spark

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Product Details

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd (Oct 28 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185754773X
ISBN-13: 978-1857547733
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 295 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,203,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

Before attaining fame as a novelist (Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Muriel Spark was already an acclaimed poet. In the seventy poems collected here, Muriel Spark works in open forms as well as villanelles, rondels, epigrams, and even the tour de force of a twenty-one page ballad. She shows herself a master of unforgettable short poems. The "power and control" of her poetry, as Publishers Weekly remarked, "is almost startling." With the vitality and wit typical of all her work, Dame Muriel has never stopped writing poems, which frequently appear in The New Yorker.