Long Shadows: Poems 1938-2002

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'Wake up, Hall! There'll be plenty of time drives old Euclid off. His first published outing could hardly have been more auspicious, it was in a volume he shared with Keith Douglas and Norman Nicholson. Those two poets have long been on the Faber list: after all these years it a pleasure to welcome J. C. Hall to the fold. the author's words, 'is not a collected poems in the sense of containing everything I've written and published, but a comprehensive selection of poems which seem, in their various ways, worth preserving.' Don't be misled by his characteristic modesty, these poems are very much 'worth preserving'. interesting to watch the development of a talent that has always been rooted firmly in the great tradition of English lyrical poetry' in a 'tone . . . rather like that of a more genial Philip Larkin . . .' and in the poems of J. C. Hall we see a craftsmanship that yields to the reader constant pleasure and enjoyment. J. C. Hall should be better known. a letter to the author) Sunday Telegraph and sometimes they can prove moving in a sudden, unexpected way.' Alan Brownjohn, London Magazine elegies, spirited epiphanies, wryly humorous observations. I read this book with growing admiration and then - with enormous pleasure - I immediately read it again.' Matt Simpson, Stride

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J. C. Hall was born in London in 1920. He grew up in Tunbridge Wells, literally on the Kent and Sussex border. After living and working in London for many years he returned to Tunbridge Wells on retirement. He has eidited the Collected Poems of Edwin Muir and Keith Douglas and is Douglas's Literary executor.