Product Description: Poetry. Richard Caddel began WRITING IN THE DARK after he was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1999; he regarded the series as ongoing, to be "finished" only by his death, which came in April 2003. The poems are an extended meditation on the many connotations of darkness and were originally drafted literally "in the dark," using a hand-held Psion with a backlit screen, in England and Japan...read more

Product Description: Cultural Studies. This lengthy interview with Richard Caddel was republished by West House to coincide with their publication of his selected poetry of the last thirty years, MAGPIE WORDS. He speaks at some length about Basil Bunting and the post-war regional poetry scene in the north of Britain, but also about more current and international issues:"To me, the "open" part of open-field poetry is again an invitation to the reader, you out there in the dinghy, to participate - without that it's a sterile pulpit-craft which I want none of...read more

Product Description: Poetry "To read Richard Caddel's life of the poem - MAGPIE WORDS - is to relearn why poetry still matters. His writing cleanses our shared language of its inherited toxicity. Each notebook jotting is placed with an eye to new coherence as if his poems were carpentered together from rescued fragments of almost-lost speech...read more

Product Description: The most significant US anthology of innovative poetries from the UK and Ireland in over 25 years. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At last in print, the complete poems of the great Northumbrian poet—admired by Pound, Yeats, and Zukofsky—containing his masterwork "Briggflatts."A master of song poems which celebrate—and incarnate—the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of his masterpiece "Briggflatts", Britain's greatest poet...read more

Product Description: Basil Bunting is now recognized as one of the most important twentieth-century British poets. This volume supplements his Collected Poems, with work that survived his own rigorous self-editing, but remained uncollected at the time of his death in 1985...read more