- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409000822
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 64
Landscape With Chainsaw
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409000822
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 64
As a field for concern in poetry, superabundance enables Lasdun to display his lavish poetic gifts
David Herd, Times Literary Supplement
Brilliant...full of linguistic panache, uncommon depths of feeling, fine ironies and taut drama. He seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite
Anthony Hecht
James Lasdun seems to be one of the secret gardens of English writing...when we read him we know what language is for
James Wood, Guardian
Readers who want to see rejuvenated form in untroubled action, giving brisk shape to contemporary and classical events, will find it in Lasdun
Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books