Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 64
ISBN: 9781854110848
Publication date: February 23, 1995
Price: £5.95
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The Lie of Horizons is Desmond Graham’s first full collection of poems. Varied in scope and range, these poems take on subjects as personal as his parents and as public as ‘Mrs.Thatcher’s England’. There is a series of incisive, satirical poems where street people become Shakespearean characters. Portraits of Rembrandt feature in another series, and the author’s travels inspire the moving poems set in Europe: ‘Kristallnacht’, ‘At The Jewish Cemetery’ and ‘Poems From Poland’. Graham’s poems about cities in Britain point to his fascination with the way history and politics affect the culture and character of the people. Refreshing for its clear-eyed and sympathetic look at the world, The Lie of Horizons is a thoroughly enjoyable debut from a fine writer .
Desmond Graham
Desmond Graham was born in Surrey and educated at Leeds University. He has lectured at Universities in Africa, Germany and, since 1971, at Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of a biography of Keith Douglas and the editor of his poems and prose. He is also the editor of an anthology, Poetry of the Second World War (Pirnlico). Seren has published three collections of his poems – Not Falling (1999), The Marching Bands (1996) and The Lie of Horizons (1993).
