Getting there

Summary: Matt Simpson?s poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Ireland and the Greek islands of Aegina and Leros. Simpson is not shy of big themes. Here are poems about identity, love, death, illness, friendship. Simpson can be tenderly elegiac as well as celebratory, meditative and also humorous.

Record details

ISBN: 0853239576
ISBN: 9780853239574
ISBN: 184631318X
ISBN: 9781846313189
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 78 pages)
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Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	On Tape at the Old People's Home Winter Solstice 2001; A Long Way from Home; Publisher's note
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.