Collected Poems

by ProfessorJohnFuller (Author), John Fuller (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $9.66

  John Fuller is one of the most accomplished, prolific and popular of contemporary poets. His Collected Poems brings together most of his poems, from his first collection, Fairground Music (1961) to Stones and Fires (winner of the 1996 Forward Poetry Prize), and enables us to appreciate the full extent of his remarkable talents. From his strikingly assured early poems - dramatic monologues and playful rewritings of myth and fairytale - to his more complex, discursive later work, Fuller displays his virtuosity with a wide variety of subjects, moods and forms. Here are fantasies, poems about nature, riddles and nonsense poems; tender love poems and philosophical meditations; sombre, wistful sonnets and the lightest, most charming songs. But there are consistent themes: romantic love, a potent sense of the physical world, and a constant shifting between exuberant irreverence and the yearning for moral and metaphysical truths. Throughout, the poems are steeped in humour and learning, and display Fuller's easy command of the of the whole scope and richness of the English language.

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $3.27

  John Fuller is a central figure in British letters, and one of the most prolific poets of his generation. This collection, published to coincide with his 60th birthday in January 1997, gathers together the majority of his published poems, from 13 collections spanning the years 1954 to the present.