Anthony Thwaite: 3 books

This book is Anthony Thwaite’s self-professed final collection, filled with poems that are wistful and even playful. The poems range over times and places, commemorating friends—especially the poet Peter Porter—and draw on memories, hard-won faith, and self-questioning

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic...

This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first appeared 30 years ago, and provides a succinct and accessible overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English courses and the general reader alike.