Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 72
ISBN: 9781854110879
Publication date: March 1, 1993
Price: £5.95
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Taken for Pearls is the vibrant and various collection of poems by Tony Curtis, published in 1993.
Included are beautiful elegies for relatives and colleagues, as well as fascinating persona poems where characters from history reveal themselves to the reader. Also featured are fine occasional lyrics inspired by domestic incidents, as well as a series of love poems translated from the dialect of the Iraqi Marsh Arabs
Throughout, the clarity and precision of the author’s style allows his subjects to shine through. Poems that meditate on the darker moments of history, such as the 1993 Dylan Thomas Prize-winner ’Incident on a Hospital Train from Calcutta, 1944’ are counterbalanced by the humour of ’The Captain’s Diary’ a long poem in the voice of an Edwardian golf club captain.
Tony Curtis
Poet, critic, essayist, expert on Welsh Art, Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in West Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College, Vermont. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including his latest: From the Fortunate Isles: New and Selected Poems. He has also written volumes of critical work on poets and artists and edited popular anthologies of poetry. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales, where he established and was Director of the MPhil in Writing for many years. He has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature and has toured widely reading his poetry to international audiences.
