\u201cHis poems are among the best in the English language in this century.\u201d \u2014Hugh Kenner<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHis measure gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life.\u201d \u2014William Carlos Williams<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTomlinson insists, and he has a right to insist, that he is as authentic a voice of modern Britain as Philip Larkin is … Only in the great poets is content so intimately married to form.\u201d \u2014Donald Davie<\/em>s<\/p>\n

Charles Tomlinson was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1927. He studied at Cambridge with Donald Davie and taught at the University of Bristol from 1957 until his retirement. He has published many collections of poetry as well as volumes of criticism and translation, and has edited the Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation (1980). His poetry has won international recognition and has received many prizes in Europe and the United States, including the 1993 Bennett Award from the Hudson Review; the New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2002; the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Ennio Flaiano, 2001; and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Attilio Bertolucci, 2004. He is an honorary fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and of the Modern Language Association. Charles Tomlinson was made a CBE for his contribution to literature in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of England\u2019s great contemporary poets, Charles Tomlinson has described his work as \u201cphenomenological … with roots in Ruskin and Wordsworth.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the only selection of his poems available in North America.<\/p>\n

Poetry, 1989 \u2022 6 x 9 inches \u2022 PB 208 pages \u2022 978-0-92042-827-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[313],"product_tag":[214],"class_list":["post-3125","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-poetry","product_tag-214"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}