Description
Drawing on eight previous collections, “All of It” is the work of a major contemporary English poet. Dick Davis’ poetry is accessible, enjoyable, graceful and above all intelligent, while completely lacking in obscurity. He addresses themes such as travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us. Much of his more recent work revolves around the idea of happiness – is it possible, must it be illusory, is its fleetingness an essential part of its nature, so that disillusion is inevitable? His poetry has been applauded by Thom Gunn, Richard Wilbur and Anthony Hecht among others. Its wit, intelligence and grace often (and startlingly) achieves an immediacy and rawness of vision.
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Ten War Poems 
The Tamarit Poems 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
How To Write Poems 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Railway Rhymes (Everyman Pocket Poets) 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
New & Selected Potatoes