In his brief introduction to the poetry anthology Worlds, editor Geoffrey Summerfield describes the images that accompany the text as follows:
"The photographs aim either to show the poets in their various worlds or to offer representations of local facts, particular places, particular people which at some time or other have provided these poets with pleasure or significant memory.
They are not 'illustrations', but a reminder that poems, like poets, come out of the world we know, and that that is where they belong".
Fay Godwin's photographs capture something of the two sides of West Yorkshire that Hughes describes: the "slightly unpleasant" world of man, where "nothing ever quite escapes into happiness", and the "exultant" mood of the Moors.
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Thursday, 1 May 2014
Words within Worlds Pt.2
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Ted Hughes
Monday, 21 April 2014
Words Within Worlds Pt.1
Worlds
Geoffrey Summerfield (ed.)
Penguin Education
Harmondsworth, Middx. 1974
This is a great photopoetry book, combining seven poets with specially commissioned photography. I'm going to post a few of these sets in due course, beginning with Cornish poet Charles Causley (1917-2003) and photographer Fay Godwin (1931-2005).
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"Just giving the cat a quick polish" |
The Focus Group sample recordings of Causley poems to great affect on several tracks: 'Keats at Teignmouth - Spring 1818' on Salty Sun Tales, from the album Hey Let Loose Your Love (Ghostbox Records, 2005), and 'I Am The Great Sun' on You Do Not See Me, from the album We Are All Pan's People (Ghostbox Records, 2007).
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Charles Causley,
Fay Godwin,
Ghostbox Records,
Penguin,
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photography,
poetry,
The Focus Group
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