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''One of the very best of our poets'' Anthony Powell

Kingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign), and old age. Collected Poems, arranged chronologically, shows the full range of his sparkling verse, by turns scabrous and melancholy, satirical and playful.

''Scathingly funny ... bawdy and tragic, unflinching and unapologetic, culpable and morally acute ... Amis''s poems rush headlong into the messiness of life'' New Criterion

''A contender for the title of the most accomplished and least self-satisfied poet of his generation'' Clive James



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Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical * Guardian *
Accomplished, literate and entertaining -- Clive James * New Statesman *
'Bare-knuckled, witty, light but never 'lite', outward-looking instead of inward-gazing - a kind of red-blooded vers de société' -- David Yezzi * The New Criterion *

Collected Poems Kingsley Amis Penguin Modern

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 07/04/2022
      ISBN13: 9780141194219, 978-0141194219
      ISBN10: 0141194219
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''One of the very best of our poets'' Anthony Powell

      Kingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign), and old age. Collected Poems, arranged chronologically, shows the full range of his sparkling verse, by turns scabrous and melancholy, satirical and playful.

      ''Scathingly funny ... bawdy and tragic, unflinching and unapologetic, culpable and morally acute ... Amis''s poems rush headlong into the messiness of life'' New Criterion

      ''A contender for the title of the most accomplished and least self-satisfied poet of his generation'' Clive James



      Trade Review
      Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical * Guardian *
      Accomplished, literate and entertaining -- Clive James * New Statesman *
      'Bare-knuckled, witty, light but never 'lite', outward-looking instead of inward-gazing - a kind of red-blooded vers de société' -- David Yezzi * The New Criterion *

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