Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Moya Cannon whales blunder up the Thames

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Publication coincides with his 80th birthday and with the 40th anniversary of the publication of Bloodaxe’s first title

In her first major collection for a decade

Let's celebrate

Thom Gunn has been described as ‘one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century’ (TLS)

Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Moya Cannon whales blunder up the ThamesBilingual English German edition. Translated from the German and introduced by Ian Crockatt. This bi lingual selection gathers poems from all periods of Rilke's life and artistic development but, instead of arranging them chronologically, places poems of similar themes or modes of expression close to one another, making bed fellows of poems rarely seen together. Each poem is to a greater or lesser extent conscious of others, the aim being to