The Italian Visitor [electronic resource]
Gowrie, Grey2013
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he title sequence, an account of a 1940s’ childhood, unravels time by placing Grey Gowrie’s eight-year-old self in fictional relationship with another poetic hero, Eugenio Montale. The Italian visited ‘bankrupt, utilitarian’ Britain in 1948, in his early fifties. There are love songs from the Portuguese, a ballad about the birth of Israel and elegiac poems for those districts of London now occupied mainly by overseas tycoons. Gowrie has also included a selection of the occasional verses he wrote in the years when poetry left him.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2013
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781847777775
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English
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3031150