Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 78
ISBN: 9781854110442
Publication date: March 1, 1991
Price: £5.95
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Against backcloths which include Utah where he lived for a year and the Dee estuary of north Wales, his home area, Davies’ fascination with other people has sparked a diversity of forms, voices, stories. Underlying his variety, there is too an urgently sustained focus. The tension between rootedness and movement, two ways of being, makes for a collection that is itself a story from what Outposts called “this interesting and accomplished poet.” Flight Patterns is John Davies’ fourth collection, the first since The Visitor’s Book, for which he shared with Vikram Seth the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Award in 1986.
John Davies
Born in 1944, John Davies was brought up in Port Talbot, south Wales, and in Prestatyn where he taught English. He has also taught in Michigan and Washington. In 1986 The Visitor’s Book, his third collection, was joint winner of the Poetry Society’s major award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. John Davies is also a talented wood carver. For more information about John Davies visit his website www.birdsinthewood.co.uk.
John is editor of the short story collection The Green Bridge which is the latest title to be redesigned for the Seren Classics series.
