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Book SynopsisGraham’s work was published by T. This collection of essays covers all aspects of Graham’s work – its critical reception, recent influence and its relations with other developments in the arts, in particular the work of the St Ives School of visual artists.
Trade ReviewThe ten essays in this book are all extremely competent studies of Graham’s work [...] constantly aware of the subtleties of Graham’s very individual attitudes to his art. The book will make an excellent companion for many readers and students.
PNReviewA wide-ranging study, which opens new vistas of interpretation.
Chapman MagazineI first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.
Harold PinterTable of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: Contacting Graham - Ralph Pite and Hester Jones
- Listen. Put on Morning
- 2. ‘Listen’: W. S. Graham - Ian Sansom
- From The White Threshold
- 3. Graham and the 1940s - Tony Lopez
- From The Nightfishing
- 4. ‘Roaring between the lines’: W. S. Graham and the White Threshold of Line-Breaks - Adam Piette
- Fromm The Dark Dialogues
- 5. Abstract, Real and Particular: Graham and Painting - Ralph Pite
- From Implements in their Places
- 6. Syntax Gram and the Magic Typewriter: W. S. Graham’s Automatic Writing - Matthew Francis
- From To My Wife at Midnight
- 7. Dependence in the Poetry of W. S. Graham - Peter Robinson
- From Dear Bryan Wynter
- 8. Achieve Further through Elegy - Fiona Green
- Letter X – My Dear So Many Times
- 9. Graham and the Numinous: The ‘Centre Aloneness’ and the ‘Unhailed Water’ - Hester Jones
- From Johann Joachim Quantz’s Five Lessons
- 10. The Poetry of W. S. Graham - Edwin Morgan
- Further Reading
- General Index
- Index of Graham’s Works
