21st Century
A01=Jeffrey Wainwright
Author_Jeffrey Wainwright
British
Category=DCF
Collected Poems
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
forthcoming
Italy
Leeds School
Manchester
Memory
Mortality
Poet
Poetry
Stoke
Product details
- ISBN 9781800175655
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A career-spanning collection from one of England's finest living poets, this volume gathers work from Wainwright's nine Carcanet collections alongside striking new poems. Author of the international bestseller Poetry: The Basics (Routledge) and a leading figure of the Leeds School of Poets with Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison, and Jon Silkin, Wainwright writes lyrically about the capacity and limit of human engagement with the world around us.
These poems move effortlessly across time and place, from the streets of Manchester and his native Stoke, to the landscapes of Italy, meditating on mortality, memory and returning. This collection offers a lifetime of thought, feeling, and craft from one of the UK's much-loved poets.
Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1944 and was educated locally and at the University of Leeds. He has taught at the University of Wales, Long Island University in Brooklyn and for many years at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he was Professor in the Department of English and its Writing School until 2008.
