Poems (2007)

Synopsis

Andrew Staniland's new collection continues the style of his "New Poems" and "Collected Poems 1982-2004." The poems are written in classical metre, in the romantic tradition of English poetry. They include "Five Hymns" (dedicated to five gods and goddesses representing different elements of contemporary culture and spirituality), "Twelve Films By Eric Rohmer," "An Older Actress" (a narrative poem in alexandrine couplets about a French actress and her film career), "William Blake And The Eighteenth Century New Age" and "Sonnetinas" (a miscellaneous sequence of sonnet-like miniatures).