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- Book Synopsis
- When Adam Johnson, a young gay man from Cheshire, arrived in London in 1984, he possessed insatiable curiosity, irresistible charm and unfocused literary ambition; when he died nine years later, he had become one of the most accomplished English poets of his generation. This Collected Poems charts that astonishing transformation. Although slender as Collecteds go, it is compelling as a record of a few short years' serious writing. Johnson's poetic imagination, shaped by his close observation of the natural world, proved no less adept at dealing with the ironies and tragedies of urban life. A love of music, painting and literature - of cultural life in all its forms - is matched by a delight in human relationships: many of his poems are dedicated to lovers and friends, across the dinner table or at journey's end. His celebratory relish for lived experience remains undiminished even in his last poems. This edition is prepared largely from the author's signed typescripts and includes previously unpublished work.
- About The Author
- ADAM JOHNSON was born in 1965, in Stalybridge, Cheshire. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked for the BBC, a theatre-booking agency and a reference-book publisher. He self-published a small collection of poems, In the Garden, in 1986; later work appeared in magazines, anthologies, and three collections - Poems (Hearing Eye, 1992), The Spiral Staircase (Acumen, 1993) and The Playground Bell (Carcanet, 1994).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781857546378
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (29 May 2003)
- Number of Pages
- 94
- Weight
- 162 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 134 x 6 mm
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