Bøker av Lawrence Sail

Lawrence Sail is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Forty-six years on from the publication of his first book, Guises offers the fruits of fullness. His poetry explores belief and doubt, memory and imagination, art and perception, the loss of friends and the state of our ailing planet.

This collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. Sail reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosms, looking, for example, at flowers, birds, the sea, and the earth seen from space; he explores the intricacies and balances of love and family relationships; he finds new resonances in the paintings of David Bomberg, Howard Hodgkin, and Paul Klee, and affinities in his translations of Mallarme, Rilke, and Trakl. His imaginative scope extends into a sequence of prose poems responding powerfully to Gabriel Faur's nine Preludes for piano.

Substantial retrospective by leading British poet covering work written over four decades from ten collections.