The Arrow-Maker by D M Black arc Publications This extensive and wide-ranging selection

This extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century

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Due out 2nd February 2017 from Faber

The Arrow-Maker by D M Black arc Publications This extensive and wide-ranging selectionIn The Arrow Maker, D. M. Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augustine, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan or Jacques Brel, also extends to more public themes of war and climate change. As always, his forms are various, but there is a predominance now of poems spoken in a thinking voice that remembers the iambic pentameter without being subdued by it. In a final section, versions of