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Steve Ellis

出版	Bloodaxe Books, 1993
主題	Poetry / GeneralPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN	18522423539781852242350
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nrZaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

When Steve Ellis was a youthful Gregory award-winning poet, the Literary Review hailed him as 'a wonderfully no-nonsense writer...a sardonic Yorkshireman monitoring scenes rooted in directly accessible experience'. He went on to publish his first book with Bloodaxe in 1987, Home and Away, which got some good reviews. Seven years have passed, and Ellis has assembled a second collection. Life may have frayed him a bit in the meantime, but his deadpan humour is as wicked as ever, and he's still able to chronicle the rituals of family and the sad or absurd nuances of ordinary lives with warmth, affection, and just a little grumpiness. He's acquired a wife and family, a mortgage and a cat, and bears his responsibilities with a shrug andthe odd, wary poem. He's moved to Birmingham, where he teaches at the University, and he's become something of an authority on Dante and Eliot. And he's written this book of wry, often hilarious poems: about lawnmowers, growing up in York, shoes, fish and chips, the death of Joe Loss, Christmas cards, and other matters of great and small importance.