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Diffractions

New and Collected Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780856464393
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Peter Dale
  • Price: AUD $42.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 17/08/2012
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Peter Dale combines intimacy of address and a personal colloquial idiom with remarkable skill in formal verse. He is interested in bringing his subjects - love, relationships, memory, all kinds of daily exchange - directly to the reader, without fuss and with thoughtful craft and conviction. The precision of his writing matches its intensity of feeling. "Diffractions" begins with new poems and ends with a collection of lively and entertaining epigrams. Between these, his published collections appear in chronological sequence. The whole assembles 50 years of elegant, incisive and moving work by a leading British poet of rare skill.
Peter Dale worked as a secondary school teacher until his retirement. He is renowned for his translations from French (Corbiere, Laforgue, Valery and Villon) and Italian (a complete terza rima version of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'). He now lives in Cardiff.
'Dale's lyric style is intensely intimate whilst avoiding the histrionic pitfalls of the confessional mode. His formidable formal control is similarly understated, living up to his own injunction that "a poet shouldn't draw attention to his stylistic self; the poem should be a lens through which something crucial is seen."' Esther Morgan 'Peter Dale is the most underrated poet of his generation' Michael Donaghy
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