NEW COLLECTED POEMS

The Spectator | May 8, 2004| | Copyright

A voice worth listening to NEW COLLECTED POEMS by W. S. Graham Faber, £25, pp. 387, ISBN 0571210155

I could tell you about Graham the man, the hard-drinking, wild and wayward Scots poet who spent most of his life in Cornwall among the artists of St Ives, but I hear his voice in my head saying, 'Tell them about the poems'. So I will.

Graham's are the most talkative poems of the 20th century. They talk to the reader, to friends (dead and alive), to his wife, to himself (or selves), to the muse, to silence, to the alphabet and, perhaps most importantly, to language itself.

Here he is in 'Dear ...

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