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Those Years
The poems in Those Years are described by Maxine Kumin as a failed love story all the more moving for what's unsaid; by Diane Thiel as quiet but startling observations in poem to extraordinary poem; by George Bilgere as having the wit, the lapidary line, the effortless control of Larkin, with a tenderness and vulnerability Larkin never permitted himself; and by Steven Reese as putting one in mind of W.D. Snodgrass' earlier work, but with a language and angle of vision that are entirely Craik's own. Not many poets working in free verse get compared to Larkin and Snodgrass. Buy the book and out why.
- GenresPoetry
26 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
About the author
Roger Craik
16 books2 followersRoger Craik, Professor Emeritus of English at Kent State University, Ohio, has written four collections of poetry: I Simply Stared (2002), Rhinoceros in Clumber Park (2003), The Darkening Green (2004), and Down Stranger Roads (2014), along with two chapbooks, Those Years (2007), (translated into Bulgarian in 2009), and Of England Still (2009). His poetry has appeared in several national poetry journals, such as The Formalist, Fulcrum, The Literary Review, The Atlanta Review, The London Grip and The London Magazine.
English by birth and educated at the universities of Reading and Southampton, he has worked as a journalist, TV critic and chess columnist. Before coming to the USA in 1991, he worked in Turkish universities and was awarded a Beineke Fellowship to Yale in 1990. He is widely traveled, having visited North Yemen, Egypt, South Africa, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Bulgaria (where he taught during spring 2007 on a Fulbright Scholarship), the United Arab Emirates, Austria, Croatia and Romania, (where from 2013-14 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oradea).
He is glad every day that he is living in the USA. He watches the birds throughout the year, with joy.
English by birth and educated at the universities of Reading and Southampton, he has worked as a journalist, TV critic and chess columnist. Before coming to the USA in 1991, he worked in Turkish universities and was awarded a Beineke Fellowship to Yale in 1990. He is widely traveled, having visited North Yemen, Egypt, South Africa, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Bulgaria (where he taught during spring 2007 on a Fulbright Scholarship), the United Arab Emirates, Austria, Croatia and Romania, (where from 2013-14 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oradea).
He is glad every day that he is living in the USA. He watches the birds throughout the year, with joy.
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