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  • Life Has Become More Cheerful
    Aidan Semmens
    “Aidan Semmens is a poet who has always been fearless in confronting the plight of the world with its disturbed ways and this volume is no exception. The mordantly titled Life Has Become More Cheerful is a chilling quote by Stalin after the horrors of the Great Purge in 1938 and sets the tone for what is to come. The first poem announces 1917, the start of the Russian Revolutio...
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    18,00 €

  • Uncertain Measures
    Aidan Semmens
    ’A Ritual Landscape’ sets out Aidan Semmens’ stall from the start of this, his third full-length collection. These are poems that ’have legs’-that continue the journey outward begun in A Stone Dog and The Book of Isaac, and elaborate the argument and project of one of our most ambitious and accomplished poets. What runs through this book, like Brighton rock, is a traditional, y...
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    15,96 €

  • The Book of Isaac
    Aidan Semmens
    FREE VERSE EDITIONS | SERIES EDITOR: JON THOMPSON | THE BOOK OF ISAAC is a sequence of 56 'distressed,' or damaged, sonnets in which Aidan Semmens endeavors to distil something of the Russian-Jewish experience from the history of his own family, in particular that of his great-grandfather, the economist, lawyer, journalist and socialist Isaac Hourwich. Drawing material from the...
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    17,52 €

  • A Stone Dog
    Aidan Semmens
    Thirty-some years in journalism have left little obvious trace in Aidan Semmens’s poetry - though, like the sports headlines he wrote for the News of the World, his verse is grounded in word-play and natural speech rhythms. In his first full-length collection he engages death, complexity, and the Authorised Version, which provides several of his titles. Other sources for his la...
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    15,78 €