It Looks Like an Island but Sails Away by Ralph Hawkins PAPERBACK 9781848614208

Shearsman Books

It Looks Like an Island but Sails Away\nby Ralph Hawkins\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ralph Hawkins\nTitle: It Looks Like an Island but Sails Away\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry by individual poets\nPublisher: Shearsman Books\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781848614208\nISBN-10: 1848614209\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\\\""Ralph Hawkins' poems minimise the gap of 'constructive effort' between the basic seeking of pleasure and pleasurable sensations, and the \\\""mediated\\\"" pleasure of the poem. [...] He does not bother with stage-setting. Each poem launches us into a series of \\\""direct experiences\\\"" from whose course we could work out the shape of the se.