{"product_id":"collected-poems-9781780374321","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eKen Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets. \u003c\/b\u003eHis politically edgy, cuttingly colloquial, muscular poetry poetry shifted territory with time, from rural Yorkshire, America and London to the war-ravaged Balkans and Eastern Europe (before and after Communism). \u003cp\u003eHis early books span a transition from a preoccupation with land and myth to his later engagement with urban Britain and the politics of radical disaffection. The pivotal work marking this shift was his long poem \u003ci\u003eFox Running\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), brought to recent attention when an archive recording of him reading it was broadcast by BBC Radio 4’s \u003ci\u003ePoetry Please\u003c\/i\u003e in 2016. His \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e brings together poetry from four decades, including all the work from two earlier retrospectives, \u003ci\u003eThe Poet Reclining: Selected Poems 1962-1980 \u003c\/i\u003e(1982) and \u003ci\u003eShed: Poems 1980-2001\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), together with the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eYou Again: last poems \u0026amp; other words\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is introduced with essays by Roger Garfitt and Jon Glover. Its publication coincided with his 80th birthday and with the 40th anniversary of the publication of Bloodaxe’s first title, Ken Smith’s\u003ci\u003e Tristan Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ken Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43356990832758,"sku":"9781780374321","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_c0ccfcc7-1254-49b6-b175-57f6b2867bed.jpg?v=1777498897","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/collected-poems-9781780374321","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}