Category: A Lament For The Makers

Announcing the forthcoming publication of A Lament For The Makers by Anne Stevenson, available Spring/Summer 2006 Limited edition of 200 copies. 44pp 170mm x 240mm  ISBN 0-9547275-7-6 ANNE STEVENSON ‘…it is about time that she was recognized as one of the finest poets writing in English today.’ Times Literary Supplement Author’s Preface: A LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS is a dream poem conceived three years ago while I was looking out over the golden beech trees of October, reading Arthur Burrell’s version of Langland’s Piers Plowman in the Everyman Edition of 1912. The poem also owes its existence to Thomas Sackville’s The Complaint of Henrie, Duke of Buckingham, (c. 1563) and to the selection of medieval lyrics represented in the first volume…

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