{"product_id":"collected-sonnets-9781848616899","title":"Collected Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollected Sonnets \u003c\/em\u003egathers 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 It includes takes on poems from other languages and a large number of previously unpublished texts.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 \u003cem\u003eThe Observer \u003c\/em\u003efor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'What are forms?' asks Gavin Selerie teasingly towards the end of his \u003cem\u003eCollected Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e. Long an admirer of American examples by the likes of e.e. cummings, Ted Berrigan and Bernadette Mayer, Selerie re-injects a distinctive English intelligence and sensibility into the sonnet form, working staunchly through a plurality of configurations, subject matters and tones. What are sonnets? 'Only a frame and skin for the beating', 'a stretched square' or 'what's filled with moving'. This is a major and hugely rewarding book by one of the UK's most singular poets.\"--Jeff Hilson, editor, \u003cem\u003eReality Street Book of Sonnets \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Selerie is a poet of place, describing urban and rural settings with accuracy and craft ... he's a poet of relationships, creating tender lyrics ... and he's a restlessly experimental writer, always wanting to expand what a poem can do.\" --Ian McMillan, \u003cem\u003eShadowtrain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12941212\"\u003eGavin Selerie\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848616899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848616899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005020\"\u003eEuropean | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44590354530541,"sku":"9781848616899","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f3221338-52b7-4426-b805-95a68cb6f13d.jpg?v=1702256653","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/collected-sonnets-9781848616899","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}