Here on Earth Jeffrey

Wainwright

ISBN 9781800172753

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 24th November 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th January 2023

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp

TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry

Sales Points

• Ninth Carcanet collection from one of the finest living English poets and author of international bestseller Poetry the Basics (Routledge), now in its third edition

• Leading member of the Leeds School of Poets, including Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Jon Silkin

• Includes ecological lyrics, sketching the capacity and limit of human engagement with the world around us, plus secular meditations on mortality and memory

• Poems of place: Italy, his home in Manchester, a return to his native Stoke (following up on previous work shortlisted for the 2017 Arnold Bennett Award in What Must Happen)

About The Author

Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent and educated locally and at the University of Leeds. In 1973 he moved to Manchester Polytechnic, later Manchester Metropolitan University, from where he retired as Professor of English in 2009. In 1984 he was Judith Wilson Fellow at St John’s College Cambridge. Besides poetry he has translated Charles Peguy, Paul Claudel,Pierre Corneille and Bernard-Marie Koltes for the RSC, the BBC and the Actors’ Touring Company. His poem ‘An Empty Street’ (PN Review) was shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. He lives in Manchester and for part of the year in Umbria.

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