Nightfisherman: Selected Letters
Book Details
Author(s)W. S. Graham
PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
ISBN / ASIN1857544455
ISBN-139781857544459
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Sales Rank4,764,610
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This selection of letters (1938-1985) belonging to a major figure on the post-1945 scene allows a glimpse of his often turbulent life. Scottish by birth, he came to be a key member of the artistic scene in St Ives in the 1950s and 60s. A friend of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Morgan, Roger Hilton, Petert Lanyon and many others, Graham never "made" a living from his poetry - the poetry made his life. A dedication and commitment to his craft produced a full body of work during his life, which he lived to the full. These letters (interspersed with poems, drawings and prints) are a testament to the close intellectual and spiritual bonds which nourished his writing over the many years he worked.

