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Don't Ask Me What I Mean
This fascinating anthology was published in 2003 to
celebrate the PBS' 50th anniversary. Clare Brown (PBS
Director of the time) and poet and editor Don Paterson explored the Bulletin
archives and extracted the pithiest and most revealing
poets' articles from 1953 onwards.
The book itself is a comprehensive guide to the last
50 years of British poetry - written by the poets
themselves. In this collection of short essays,
the reader finds the last words Louis MacNeice
wrote before his death, Ted Hughes on The Hawk
in the Rain, Paul Muldoon on the etymology
of 'quoof', Carol Ann Duffy on difficulties with
gonks, and Simon Armitage on the Dead Sea Scrolls. There are also rare contributions from Seamus Heaney, Philip
Larkin, Kingsley Amis, U A Fanthorpe, Jo Shapcott,
Geoffrey Hill, Michael Donaghy, Elizabeth Jennings
and many others.
Together they comprise a candid,
funny, intellectually brilliant and deeply personal
account of one the most turbulent and fascinating
periods in recent literary history. Unprecedented
in its scope - and its scoops - Don't Ask Me
What I Mean is essential reading, both for
the poetry aficionado and for the uninitiated
- and provides a unique insight into some of the
most remarkable minds of our time.
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