Collected Poems

by C.H. Sisson

When C.H. Sisson was 20, he gave up writing poems. He began once more in his 30s under the stress of war-time, stationed in India. Verse came intermittently, exiguously; the bulk of his early writing in translation ('fishing in other men's waters' he calls it), prose essays and fiction. In the 1960s his poems began to appear.
The London Zoo - his first major book - was published in 1961 when the poet was 47. Since that time his place has grown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857543793
• ISBN13: 9781857543797
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 525 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.5"