North by South: New and Selected Poems

by John Davies

Overview

This volume of selected poems by John Davies draws from his previous five collections. Adroit in a wide variety of styles and forms, Davies produces telling satire alongside the perceptively delicate and observational, confirming the breadth of his poetic vision. Davies has lived in Utah, Michigan, and Washington state, and the tension between rootedness and movement, between belonging and the cosmopolitan, is a theme that runs throughout his work. Nature and humankind's relationship with it plays a significant role.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781854113252
Publisher:	Seren
Publication date:	09/01/2003
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

John Davies is the author of five collections of poems, including Flight Patterns, Dirt Roads, and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize–winning The Visitor's Book.

Editorial Reviews

The characteristic strengths of John Davies' writing all point back to his being a ‘thinking’ poet—his concern with ideas; his commitment to exploration, discovery and definition; his frequent rhythmic seriousness; his wit.” —Poetry Wales

“The most subtle Anglo-Welsh confrontation with America that I know.” —Tony Conran

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