Published 2019. Paperback, 372pp, 9 x 6ins.
ISBN 9781848616899 [Download a PDF sampler from this book here.]
Collected Sonnets
gathers nine main sequences, along with extracts and fugitive pieces, from a 50-year span. It includes takes on poems from other languages and a large number of previously unpublished texts. Praised by Peter Porter in The Observer
for richly re-working Elizabethan elements, Selerie’s sonnets have appealed equally to readers with a modernist bent. Standard themes—love, death, time, in land- and sea-scape—are given a radical slant. These poems grapple with emotions and ideas, shaped to give the personal public force. Motifs that emerge in individual sonnets also weave through the whole.
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