Chess pieces
By: David Solway.
Series: The Hugh MacLennan poetry series
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montréal; Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Chess -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: David Solway's new collection of poems is a profound and witty work by a grandmaster of English verse. In forms ranging from free verse to strict quatrains to sly "translations," the poems in Chess Pieces display an astonishing formal skill. These are poems of wit, elegance, and humour but, more darkly, they are also explorations of the play of power as enacted in the game of chess.
Notes: Poems.