{"product_id":"collected-poems-kingsley-amis-penguin-modern-classics-9780141194219","title":"Collected Poems Kingsley Amis Penguin Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''One of the very best of our poets'' Anthony Powell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKingsley 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. \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, arranged chronologically, shows the full range of his sparkling verse, by turns scabrous and melancholy, satirical and playful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Scathingly funny ... bawdy and tragic, unflinching and unapologetic, culpable and morally acute ... Amis''s poems rush headlong into the messiness of life'' \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A contender for the title of the most accomplished and least self-satisfied poet of his generation'' Clive James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAccomplished, literate and entertaining -- Clive James * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e'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 *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732437250391,"sku":"9780141194219","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141194219.jpg?v=1719996870","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/collected-poems-kingsley-amis-penguin-modern-classics-9780141194219","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}