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Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse.
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- GenresPoetry
120 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1970
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Edward Lucie-Smith
450 books29 followersJohn Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith, known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is an English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster.
Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946. He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and, after a little time in Paris, he read History at Merton College, Oxford from 1951 to 1954.
After serving in the Royal Air Force as an Education Officer and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer (as well as anthologist and photographer). He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group.
At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3. He is also a regular contributor to The London Magazine, in which he writes art reviews. A prolific writer, he has written more than one hundred books in total on a variety of subjects, chiefly art history as well as biographies and poetry.
In addition he has curated a number of art exhibitions, including three Peter Moores projects at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; the New British Painting (1988–90) and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.
Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946. He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and, after a little time in Paris, he read History at Merton College, Oxford from 1951 to 1954.
After serving in the Royal Air Force as an Education Officer and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer (as well as anthologist and photographer). He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group.
At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3. He is also a regular contributor to The London Magazine, in which he writes art reviews. A prolific writer, he has written more than one hundred books in total on a variety of subjects, chiefly art history as well as biographies and poetry.
In addition he has curated a number of art exhibitions, including three Peter Moores projects at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; the New British Painting (1988–90) and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.
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January 22, 2017
Poetry by such SF writers as Aldiss, Brunner, Conquest, Disch, CS Lewis... SF themes from poets such as John Ciardi, Adrian Henri and Ted Hughes... even skillful formal sonnets from HP Lovecraft... this is quite a wonderful collection, and far more varied in style (and quality) than you expect in a normal anthology of either SF or poetry.
Maybe this book isn't for everyone - but if your interests cover both these genres of writing, it is something to read more than once.
Maybe this book isn't for everyone - but if your interests cover both these genres of writing, it is something to read more than once.
April 29, 2014
A beautiful collection of science fiction poetry. The poetry weds aesthetics with philosophic thought. Some of them are exquisite, some amusing and witty, and some adds a penny to your existentialist angst.
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