NEW COLLECTED POEMS

First edition, first printing. Original dark blue paper-covered boards with cream lettering to the spine, in the Pentagram designed dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper that has two tiny marks to the spine. Not price-clipped (£25.00 to the front flap).

This New Collected Graham, freshly edited by the poet and Graham scholar Matthew Francis, adds two posthumously published collections as well as a number of previously unpublished poems to the work previously collected in 'Collected Poems 1942-1977'. The volume, generously annotated, also includes a foreword by Douglas Dunn. "I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration." (Harold Pinter).