ISBN: 9780571243280    Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 468        

With its publication by Faber in 1994, this "Collected Poems" revealed for the first time the true range of Norman Nicholson's output, as well the strength of the Christian element in his writing. All Nicholson's writing drew its nourishment from close observation of the part of Cumbria where he lived, and of which he was the most devoted, accurate and unsentimental describer and chronicler. In his introduction to this book, Neil Curry - a friend of Nicholson and a poet himself - discusses the nature of Nicholson's 'parochialism' and its paradoxical universality, demonstrating just what was meant when his "Times" obituarist called him 'the most gifted Christian poet of the century.'
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Norman Nicholson was born in Millom, Cumbria, in 1914 and lived there, with a single interruption, for the rest of his life. He was award the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1977, and the OBE in 1981. He died in 1987. His Collected Poems appeared in 1994.
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