Things Unsaid: Selected Poems 1960 - 2005

By Tony Connor

Book Overview

Things Unsaid is the author's own choice of poems from a writing career that spans nearly half a century. It draws on seven published collections and includes many uncollected and new poems. Tony Connor left school at fourteen and worked as a textile designer in Manchester for many years. His poems - often, as he terms it, quasi-autobiographical - combine memory, experience and imagination with firm craftsmanship. The results are remarkable for their precision, their wry humour and broad human sympathies. Since 1971 Tony Connor has lived partly in Middletown, Connecticut where he was a professor of English at Wesleyan University. His plays have been performed on both sides of the Atlantic. He now divides his time between Middletown and London.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085646385X
• ISBN13: 9780856463853
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Best of British

I too have been following Connor's career. I rate him with Fleur Adcock as among the best Britain has to offer (in the latter's case, also the best of New Zealand!) but easy to miss amongst the razzmatazz. Listen!

From : Experiences Past To Present

I have enjoyed Tony Connor's poems for the last forty years. " Things Unsaid" is a masterful piece of work. He ensnares the reader into his world of language, independent from academic influences,truthful, open and candid. It took many years before I discovered the labor he puts into his work. Each line the same amount of sylables,his mind a cauldron of insight poured upon the page. Reading "Things Unsaid" brought me to laughter,tears,as well as somber reflections on life. This poet, this writer's strength and honesty, will long be remembered by all who read him. Martin J. Kane