- Published: 28 January 2016
- ISBN: 9781448105083
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
All Of Us
The Collected Poems
- Published: 28 January 2016
- ISBN: 9781448105083
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
A year after the American writer's abrupt death, Salman Rushdie concluded a review of A New Path to the Waterfall, a final verse collection, by urging: 'Read everything Raymond Carver ever wrote.' It's very good advice
Irish Times
Better known for his short stories, Raymond Carver was also an accomplished poet, as this superbly presented collection attests
Anthony Quinn, Harpers & Queen
The cumulative effect is exhilarating: happiness, yes, but about as far as you can get from the bland, cosmic gruntlement currently being peddled by so many American poets
Times Literary Supplement
What is never lost - or lost sight of- is the primacy of experience and the most direct way of finding its expression... The urgency of the artist not to trivialise, but to find the essence; plain language in which to lay bare the terror and beauty of plain lives
John Harvey