New Light for the Old Dark - Willetts, Sam
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Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, the author emerges now as a fully-fledged and significant English poet. This book includes his poems that address Englishness, secular Jewishness, and the childhood pleasures of Oxfordshire - an increasingly deceptive pastoral, stalked and eventually shattered by heroin.

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Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, the author emerges now as a fully-fledged and significant English poet. This book includes his poems that address Englishness, secular Jewishness, and the childhood pleasures of Oxfordshire - an increasingly deceptive pastoral, stalked and eventually shattered by heroin.
Autorenporträt
Sam Willetts was born in 1962 and has spent most of his life in Oxford, where he read English at Wadham College, and in London. He has worked as a teacher, journalist and travel writer.His first collection, New Light for the Old Dark, was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. In 2014 he was named as a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet.