Selected Poems, 1967-1987 [Import] [Hardcover]

Roger. MCGOUGH (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224027182
• ISBN-13: 978-0224027182
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,538,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I thought I hated poetry., May 20, 1999

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Dinoj Surendran "buymespresso" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Selected Poems, 1967-1987 (Hardcover)

So there I was, in the bookshop, looking for a birthday present (I never give people books I don't first read AND enjoy) when the saleslady thrust this book in my hand and said "Read it." After vain protests that I'd never understood poetry, I opened the book. After two minutes I bought it.

This poetry, unlike the classical stuff that only uses words and phrases that I can't understand, is the stuff of today. Many poems talk of a male in love, but others talk of dying ("let me die when I'm old and in constant good tumour" or something like that), lips, nuclear war, loneliness, poets. This being a collection, even the worst poems are excellent. He uses words in ways I'd never imagined, laying them all over the place. And in a right place.

Somehow, he makes words talk.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Selected poems, 1967-1987, December 17, 2001

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Richard C Griffiths (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Selected Poems, 1967-1987 (Hardcover)

History will be very kind to this poet. His work is pitched at a level anyone can respond to. Some of his metaphors are astonishing and more poignant based on the simplicity of the everyday life around the poet. There are no huge ideals just tales of everyday life. This is a spectacular book, and is saddly one of the most underrated I've ever read.