Being Alive: Selected Poems

D.H. Lawrence: Being Alive: Selected Poems

Edited with an introduction by Margaret Elvy

D.H. Lawrence's strident and idiosyncratic evocations of sex, touch, Spring, flowers, nature, love, black suns, fish and other glories are gathered here in this new selection.

British Poets Series. Bibliography and notes.

D.H. Lawrence's poetry is far less known than his fiction. It is often loose, rather than fluid, and unstructured rather than 'free' verse, and messy rather than well-defined. It is a poetr...