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Before Dark: Collected Poems

Before Dark: Collected Poems

Anderson, Martin

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 184861960X
ISBN13: 9781848619609
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Jan 17 2025
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before Dark reflects Martin Anderson's peripatetic lifestyle of three decades. During a weekend in Paris in 1971, whilst teaching at the University of Grenoble, he met T.T. Wong, a young Chinese artist from Shanghai, and their long discussions cemented his aspiration to go East. English society had, he felt, since he was born into it shortly after the end of World War II, succeeded only in submerging his nose in the effluvium of a squalid sewer of class discriminations, so the time was more than ripe for him to bid farewell to the UK. Arriving, eventually, at the University of Hong Kong where T.T. Wong's letter of introduction to a young Dostoevsky scholar heading a department had directed his feet, Anderson discovered that it was an institution where the ancien régime (Terms of Service finely calibrated to reflect skin pigmentation...) was firmly entrenched. After a good number of years he moved still further east, to Manila and the University of the Philippines. Through all these years, and the first few years of his return to the UK, the poems of Before Dark were written, along with the prose The Hoplite Journals, described by the novelist James Hamilton-Paterson as enter[ing] that select pantheon of books to travel with, a vademecum ... A most remarkable achievement.

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