Garden Time Louis De Paor and poems of the political

and poems of the political imagination

that see her playing with genre to explore the nature of female creativity

their pleasure: clubs

music and poetry – as well as a stirring memento mori to gather our rosebuds while we may

Due out 2nd February 2017 from Faber

Garden Time Louis De Paor and poems of the politicalPBS Recommendation Autumn 2016 W. S. Merwin is arguably the most influential American poet of the last half century an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. An essential voice in modern American literature, he was United States Poet Laureate in 2010 11. Merwin composed the poems of Garden Time as he was losing his eyesight. When he could no longer see well enough to write, he dictated the poems to his wife,