Allen Curnow Allen Curnow

Allen Curnow

Collected Poems

    • $19.99
    • $19.99

Publisher Description

Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move – from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original volumes. The notes reproduce Curnow's comments on individual poems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
February 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
388
Pages
PUBLISHER
Auckland University Press
SELLER
Chicago Review Press, Inc. DBA Independent Publishers Group
SIZE
1.2
MB
Collected Poems, 1951-2006 Collected Poems, 1951-2006
2009
Striking a Match in a Storm Striking a Match in a Storm
2022
Chris McCully: Selected Poems Chris McCully: Selected Poems
2011
New Poetries VI New Poetries VI
2015
Deer on the High Hills Deer on the High Hills
2021
Laminations Laminations
2000