Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3115083 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Important, but...
I saw Barry MacSweeney at a poetry reading in Huddersfield, about 1998. He was a wreck that night, but a fascinating reader.
His poetry is rambling, occasionally incoherent, repetitive, and rude, so it should come as no suprise that it is also fitfully very beautiful and true. The whole of "Pearl" is reproduced here, which is disappointing if you already possess it because it comprises at least a quarter of the book. The selection from his other numerous books and pamphlets should have been larger - for instance it contains very few early poems. Having said that, Bloodaxe have honoured an important and neglected man. The Collected will make an even more worthy investment of their time, and yours.