NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Sutchinda Rangsi Thompson. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt sharp, the contents bright and clean throughout. Minor bump to the right corner of the upper spine. In the bright dustwrapper, with just a touch of wear to upper edges. Not price-clipped (£25.00 to the front flap). An attractive copy.

The 'New and Collected Poems', published a year after the poet's death, is the definitive edition of Fanthorpe's poems. It includes the poet's own selection of of her work, along with a substantial section of unpublished work. "[S]he might be called an heir to Betjeman and Larkin – but she is simultaneously and always her own person: at once consoling and surprising, and heart-warmingly generous in her sympathy with the human condition." (Andrew Motion).