Portable Property
The poems of John Lucas's latest collection, Portable Property, crackle with wit and insight, creating and recreating worlds at once familiar and original. Whether writing in a shorter lyric form, prose poems or long narrative pieces like 'Don Johnson, Restaurateur', Lucas brings to his work an acute observational skill allied to a compassion for all-too-human weaknesses.
With an ear for the colloquial, Lucas draws from the telling minutiae of the everyday, tackling head on the great themes and, in the process, producing poetry recognisably of the English lyric tradition: unfussily modest, comprehensible and engaging the reader in a real place and time.
Portable Property shows Lucas to be a true craftsman.
About the author:
John Lucas is a well-known poet, critic, novelist, biographer, and literary historian. His Studying Grosz on the Bus won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize in 1990, in 2008 92 Acharnon Street was given the Authors' Club Dolman Award for Travel Writing, and his translations of the poems of Egil's Saga, now reissued as I, the Poet Egil, is an Everyman Classic. Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent, John Lucas has written for all the leading literary journals, and since 1994 he has been editor and publisher of Shoestring Press.
82 pages
ISBN: 978-1-910996-00-3
The poems of John Lucas's latest collection, Portable Property, crackle with wit and insight, creating and recreating worlds at once familiar and original. Whether writing in a shorter lyric form, prose poems or long narrative pieces like 'Don Johnson, Restaurateur', Lucas brings to his work an acute observational skill allied to a compassion for all-too-human weaknesses.
With an ear for the colloquial, Lucas draws from the telling minutiae of the everyday, tackling head on the great themes and, in the process, producing poetry recognisably of the English lyric tradition: unfussily modest, comprehensible and engaging the reader in a real place and time.
Portable Property shows Lucas to be a true craftsman.
About the author:
John Lucas is a well-known poet, critic, novelist, biographer, and literary historian. His Studying Grosz on the Bus won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize in 1990, in 2008 92 Acharnon Street was given the Authors' Club Dolman Award for Travel Writing, and his translations of the poems of Egil's Saga, now reissued as I, the Poet Egil, is an Everyman Classic. Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent, John Lucas has written for all the leading literary journals, and since 1994 he has been editor and publisher of Shoestring Press.
82 pages
ISBN: 978-1-910996-00-3
The poems of John Lucas's latest collection, Portable Property, crackle with wit and insight, creating and recreating worlds at once familiar and original. Whether writing in a shorter lyric form, prose poems or long narrative pieces like 'Don Johnson, Restaurateur', Lucas brings to his work an acute observational skill allied to a compassion for all-too-human weaknesses.
With an ear for the colloquial, Lucas draws from the telling minutiae of the everyday, tackling head on the great themes and, in the process, producing poetry recognisably of the English lyric tradition: unfussily modest, comprehensible and engaging the reader in a real place and time.
Portable Property shows Lucas to be a true craftsman.
About the author:
John Lucas is a well-known poet, critic, novelist, biographer, and literary historian. His Studying Grosz on the Bus won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize in 1990, in 2008 92 Acharnon Street was given the Authors' Club Dolman Award for Travel Writing, and his translations of the poems of Egil's Saga, now reissued as I, the Poet Egil, is an Everyman Classic. Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent, John Lucas has written for all the leading literary journals, and since 1994 he has been editor and publisher of Shoestring Press.
82 pages
ISBN: 978-1-910996-00-3