Results for "Levenson, Christopher"

Moorings, the fourteenth collection from award-winning poet Christopher Levenson, is a profound meditation on loss and ageing. “ It is an intricate business, growing old,” posits the speaker in the titular poem. “ Though I once had a photographic memory,” ... Read More about Moorings

"I was on my way to look for a life of my own."A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, long out of print, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator's attempt to break free of a repressive upper-middle-class upbringing and ma... Read More about Leavetaking (Neversink)

Author's Foreword: Why short poems? Although compactness and density are important poetic virtues, I never set out to write poems of a certain length: a poem should be as long as it needs to be and not a syllable longer. But small things risk going unnoticed. Thus, although some of these poems have ... Read More about Small Talk

A tattered coat upon a stick represents both a summing-up and a continued breaking of new ground by a distinguished poet still at the top of his game after a long career. This full-bodied, symphonically-arranged collection encompasses Levenson's early years in England, a sequence of poems that vivid... Read More about A Tattered Coat Upon a Stick

The title Night Vision refers firstly to the night vision goggles that enable soldiers to see through the darkness in order to destroy and kill, and secondly to a vision of the political and ecological night that threatens humankind, but also to the faint possibility, grounded in personal relationsh... Read More about Night Vision