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"Wilson's best poems show restraint, though they are frequently brave, transcending and profound. This is an important debut collection." James Byrne, editor of The Wolf
"Master of minute observation and celebrant of local landscape.... ironic, urgent and passionate... an assured, serious voice." Richard Burns, poet
"I mentally accepted [Stephen Wilson's] marvellous poem, 'Conservation Studio: Hermitage', almost on a first reading, it was so good." Mark McGuinness, editor of Magma 34
Stephen Wilson's Fluttering Hands marks the debut of a lyric poet who combines a romantic sensibility with a restrained ironic outlook on the human condition. There is a playful quality to his work that celebrates the joy of language even as it probes painful experience. Whether he is stirred by a Petrarch sonnet, a Welsh sheep-farmer, Russian museum-worker, Turkish fishing boat, arthritic knee, or Lesser Horseshoe bat, his poems convey the workings of a sympathetic intelligence. Several in this collection are set in Wales where the author has a home, others reflect his Anglo-Jewish identity and ancestry in Eastern Europe.
Stephen Wilson was born in London in 1944. He qualified as a doctor in 1968 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, formerly Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Oxford. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind, Introducing the Freud Wars, Sigmund Freud (A Pocket Biography) and The Cradle of Violence: Essays on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Literature. He has contributed numerous reviews and articles to academic journals and newspapers including Encounter, TLS, The Guardian, The Independent and New York Times. He and his wife have lived and worked in Oxford since the early 1970s and are the parents of three grown-up children and grandparents to three little girls.
"Wilson's best poems show restraint, though they are frequently brave, transcending and profound. This is an important debut collection." James Byrne, editor of The Wolf
"Master of minute observation and celebrant of local landscape.... ironic, urgent and passionate... an assured, serious voice." Richard Burns, poet
"I mentally accepted [Stephen Wilson's] marvellous poem, 'Conservation Studio: Hermitage', almost on a first reading, it was so good." Mark McGuinness, editor of Magma 34
Stephen Wilson's Fluttering Hands marks the debut of a lyric poet who combines a romantic sensibility with a restrained ironic outlook on the human condition. There is a playful quality to his work that celebrates the joy of language even as it probes painful experience. Whether he is stirred by a Petrarch sonnet, a Welsh sheep-farmer, Russian museum-worker, Turkish fishing boat, arthritic knee, or Lesser Horseshoe bat, his poems convey the workings of a sympathetic intelligence. Several in this collection are set in Wales where the author has a home, others reflect his Anglo-Jewish identity and ancestry in Eastern Europe.
Stephen Wilson was born in London in 1944. He qualified as a doctor in 1968 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, formerly Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Oxford. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind, Introducing the Freud Wars, Sigmund Freud (A Pocket Biography) and The Cradle of Violence: Essays on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Literature. He has contributed numerous reviews and articles to academic journals and newspapers including Encounter, TLS, The Guardian, The Independent and New York Times. He and his wife have lived and worked in Oxford since the early 1970s and are the parents of three grown-up children and grandparents to three little girls.