New and Selected Poems

by Anne Ridler

Anne Ridler's work has always been distinguished by its sensitivity to both the familiar world of experience and the vaster one revealed through metaphysical speculation. As well as new work, this volume includes the author's own choice from her major Poems (1939), The Nine Bright Shiners (1943), The Golden Bird (1951), A Matter of Life and Death (1959) and Some Time After (1972).

101 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) were published in 1994. She turned to libretto work and verse plays; it was later in life that she earned official recognition, receiving an OBE in 2001.
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