The Moon Looks on Them All
John Lucas’s new book brings together essays and reminiscences of friends and acquaintances made over a lifetime, including school teachers, jazz musicians, writers, sportsmen, ‘plain, ordinary folk,’ and Brian Clough, ‘Cloughie’’ the legendary figure who belongs to the history of Nottingham, Lucas’s adopted city, where he has lived for the past sixty years.
About the Author
John Lucas is an award-winning poet, novelist, critic, essayist, and jazz musician, the author of many books, including Studying Grosz on the Bus, winner of the 1990 Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, 92 Acharnon Street, his account of a year in Athens, winner of the 2008 Dolman Award for Travel Writing, The Poems of Egil’s Saga, Dent/Everyman Classic, 1996, Next Year Will Be Better: England in the 1950s, a Book of the Year for both the Guardian and Times Literary Supplement, the novel Summer Nineteen Forty-Five, a Book of the Year in the TLS, and The Awkward Squad: Rebels in English Cricket, short-listed for the Cricket Writers’ Book of the Year Award. Among his other books are A Brief History of Whistling, co-authored with Allan Chatburn, critical studies of Dickens, Browning, and Crabbe, and modern English poetry from Hardy to Hughes, and, most recently, Closing Time at the Royal Oak, his account of the slow decline and fall of a ‘local’ pub. His most recent novel is That Little Thread. He is the publisher of Shoestring Press.
‘All of Lucas’s writing has a pungent exactness and sense of detail … ’ Time Literary Supplement
‘Only a dedicated sourpuss could fail to be swept along by Lucas’s zest and intelligence.’ The Spectator
No of Pages: 314 pp
ISBN: 9781910996836
John Lucas’s new book brings together essays and reminiscences of friends and acquaintances made over a lifetime, including school teachers, jazz musicians, writers, sportsmen, ‘plain, ordinary folk,’ and Brian Clough, ‘Cloughie’’ the legendary figure who belongs to the history of Nottingham, Lucas’s adopted city, where he has lived for the past sixty years.
About the Author
John Lucas is an award-winning poet, novelist, critic, essayist, and jazz musician, the author of many books, including Studying Grosz on the Bus, winner of the 1990 Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, 92 Acharnon Street, his account of a year in Athens, winner of the 2008 Dolman Award for Travel Writing, The Poems of Egil’s Saga, Dent/Everyman Classic, 1996, Next Year Will Be Better: England in the 1950s, a Book of the Year for both the Guardian and Times Literary Supplement, the novel Summer Nineteen Forty-Five, a Book of the Year in the TLS, and The Awkward Squad: Rebels in English Cricket, short-listed for the Cricket Writers’ Book of the Year Award. Among his other books are A Brief History of Whistling, co-authored with Allan Chatburn, critical studies of Dickens, Browning, and Crabbe, and modern English poetry from Hardy to Hughes, and, most recently, Closing Time at the Royal Oak, his account of the slow decline and fall of a ‘local’ pub. His most recent novel is That Little Thread. He is the publisher of Shoestring Press.
‘All of Lucas’s writing has a pungent exactness and sense of detail … ’ Time Literary Supplement
‘Only a dedicated sourpuss could fail to be swept along by Lucas’s zest and intelligence.’ The Spectator
No of Pages: 314 pp
ISBN: 9781910996836
John Lucas’s new book brings together essays and reminiscences of friends and acquaintances made over a lifetime, including school teachers, jazz musicians, writers, sportsmen, ‘plain, ordinary folk,’ and Brian Clough, ‘Cloughie’’ the legendary figure who belongs to the history of Nottingham, Lucas’s adopted city, where he has lived for the past sixty years.
About the Author
John Lucas is an award-winning poet, novelist, critic, essayist, and jazz musician, the author of many books, including Studying Grosz on the Bus, winner of the 1990 Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, 92 Acharnon Street, his account of a year in Athens, winner of the 2008 Dolman Award for Travel Writing, The Poems of Egil’s Saga, Dent/Everyman Classic, 1996, Next Year Will Be Better: England in the 1950s, a Book of the Year for both the Guardian and Times Literary Supplement, the novel Summer Nineteen Forty-Five, a Book of the Year in the TLS, and The Awkward Squad: Rebels in English Cricket, short-listed for the Cricket Writers’ Book of the Year Award. Among his other books are A Brief History of Whistling, co-authored with Allan Chatburn, critical studies of Dickens, Browning, and Crabbe, and modern English poetry from Hardy to Hughes, and, most recently, Closing Time at the Royal Oak, his account of the slow decline and fall of a ‘local’ pub. His most recent novel is That Little Thread. He is the publisher of Shoestring Press.
‘All of Lucas’s writing has a pungent exactness and sense of detail … ’ Time Literary Supplement
‘Only a dedicated sourpuss could fail to be swept along by Lucas’s zest and intelligence.’ The Spectator
No of Pages: 314 pp
ISBN: 9781910996836