Nameless Earth

Author(s): Robert Gray

Poetry

Believing, as Ezra Pound did, that real emotion is all that endures, Robert Gray has avoided 'magic realism', whismy, irony and mannered tone in his poetry. Instead, his style is classically direct, clear and concrete, demonstrating an Augustan preference for substantial content. The poems of "Nameless Earth" are richly textured in their language; naturally elevated in manner and yet without pretension. Taking as its subject the natural world and the arbitrary nature of things, this collection includes concrete poems, rhymed lyrics and epigrams, discursive philosophical discourse and free verse. Formally diverse and endlessly inventive, Gray's poems always grow, nevertheless, out of a vivid and genuine response to the world around him.


Product Information

ROBERT GRAY was born in Australia in 1945 and grew up in a small port on the coast of New South Wales. His father owned a tropical fruit plantation. Since the 1960s he has lived in Sydney. Carcanet published his collection 'Grass Script' in 1978.

General Fields

  • : 9781857548389
  • : Carcanet Press Ltd
  • : Carcanet Press Ltd
  • : 0.122
  • : October 2006
  • : 216mm X 135mm X 7mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Robert Gray
  • : Paperback
  • : 821
  • : 96