Time to Get Here Selected Poems 1969–2002

These are poems which welcome distraction and which seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, chart a lazy form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century.

About the author

Ian Patterson was born in 1948 and grew up in Cheshire and London. After a variety of jobs, he now teaches English at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He has published numerous translations, most recently Finding Time Again, the final volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time from Penguin. He lives in Cambridge with the writer Jenny Diski.

Summary

These are poems which welcome distraction and seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and reconstructed second-hand words and, taken together, chart a form of investigative political thinking through the last three decades of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Ian Patterson, Ian Patterson
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.04.2003
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781876857929
• ISBN: 978-1-876857-92-9
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 21
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subjects: POETRY / General; Poetry by individual poets; Poetry / poems by individual poets