Collected Poems

By E.J. Scovell

E. J. Scovell has made her own terms with poetry. She has published only four book-length collections, her first in 1944, though she started writing in the 1920s. This volume reveals that she has not been as 'scarce' a poet as her admirers have believed. She has been overlooked by anthologists and critics, partly because her work was long out-of-print until the beginning of a revival in 1982, and partly because the path she chose to follow did not cross the busy highways of fashion.
She wrote of her poems: 'I should like the surface to be entirely clear, and the meaning to be entirely implicit; I should like the reader to understand what I say, so that along with it he may apprehend something I do not say, but which the subject of my poem expresses to me, and could to him'.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856357340
• ISBN13: 9780856357343
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"