{"product_id":"selected-poems-1933-1988-9780811210546","title":"Selected Poems 1933-1988","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gavin Ewart\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGavin Ewart, one of Britain's finest and most original poets, is presented here in a half-century retrospective. His subjects various and his approach toothsomely scathing, he believes: \"good light verse is better than bad heavy verse any day of the week.\" Consider one of his briefest poems, \"The Lover Reflects: Afterwards\" - \"Perhaps I was greedy. I know I should be grateful\/You wanted a snack and I wanted a plateful.\" An inventive technical master (creator of the \"Ewart\" form), he stalks his favorite prey--hypocrisy, love's foibles, the \"pseuds\"--with a razor-sharp wit. \"There is iron in irony, although you smile,\" he writes in one poem: \"...I have my language, you have yours\/ a lower-archy is a hierarchy viewed from above.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47892535967895,"sku":"9780811210546","price":1339.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811210546.webp?v=1781187389","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-1933-1988-9780811210546","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}