New Collected Poems of W. S. Graham

Francis, Matthew, New Collected Poems of W. S. Graham, (London: Faber and Faber, 2004 RAE2008

From his first publication in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W.S. Graham has given us a poetry of intese power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the 20th century. Graham died in 1986 with much of his work gathered in 'Collected Poems 1942-1977'. However, two posthumous collections - 'Uncollected Poems' (1990) and 'Aimed at Nobody' (1993) - have unearthed a wealth of new material and heightened the need to retell the full publication story. This collection aims to offer the broadest picture yet of Graham's work.