Variations on Painting a Room: Poems 2000-2010

by Alan Baker

Variations on Painting a Room brings together ten years of small press publications by the poet Alan Baker, together with a large body of new and uncollected work. His poetry, as Todd Swift notes, "turns the British lyric subtly, and offers new angles on a how a line may be shaped, or allowed to spin off in another direction." "Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "The three qualities I admire in the poetry I like best Accuracy, Spontaneity, Mystery". These are the qualities I find in Alan Baker's poems. The precise particulars that create a very real, clear and believable writing, a willingness to take risks, and an awareness that what matters is not to be found in the obvious but in the half glimpsed, half said, half understood" (Lee Harwood)

210 pages, Paperback

First published March 10, 2011

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