Collected Poems
Subtitle: Mervyn Peake
Contributors: Robert Maslen (Editor)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781857549713
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry
Description: "It is forty years since the death of Mervyn Peake (1911-68), the author of the much-loved Gormenghast novels. To mark the anniversary this first comprehensive edition of Peake's poetry is published. It includes every black-and-white illustration he made for his verse, together with unpublished drawings. Of the more than 230 poems in the collection, over 80 are printed for the first time. Robert Maslen's detailed work on the manuscripts reveals the poems as a dazzling link between the fantasy world of Gormenghast and the narrative of Peake's own life and of the turbulent times he lived in."--book jacket.