Alan Ross: Poems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781843432241)

Cricket writer, independent publisher, and editor of the London Magazine, Alan Ross was foremost a poet of high elegance, whose 60 years of work, from his commission in the Royal Navy in 1941 to his death in 2001, is selected and introduced in these pages by his friend David Hughes. Alan Ross invented a poetic genre that extended well beyond occasional verse--poetry as a brief, intense form of journalism, easy to read, quick to stir response. To convey public and private events, Ross sketches a shorthand of his own. At their chosen level, half documentary, half commentary, his images cast a cumulative light on the kicks and miseries of 20th century war and love.

Author: Alan Ross
ISBN-10: 1843432242
ISBN-13: 9781843432241
Publisher: Random House UK
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.30d