Now and for a Time
John Fuller
  • Published: 15 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9780701173517
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $27.99

Now and for a Time

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John Fuller is one of England's most important poets. His new collection exhibits a remarkable a depth of experience and philosophical maturity.

Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves himself, once again, a true master of this art.

They take us from birth to death: from a baby's first delightful babblings, to the dignified, measured words of a man surveying his life and marriage, and looking forward into the unknown. There are moments of great joie de vivre, of pleasure in the earthy things of life; and yet, beyond, there is always a sense of a vaster, more elusive universe.

The snorting of the horses in a field in 'Dreams', the egret on the rock in 'Sentinel': these are nature's mysteries. To make sense of these, we have language and music. Celebratory, playful, reconciled to the questions that will not be answered, these poems exude a miraculous kind of peace and understanding: 'A point of closure that allows the next/Inevitable sentence to begin'.
  • Published: 15 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9780701173517
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $27.99
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Praise for Now and for a Time

Fuller's poetry can be seen to build a bridge of boats between light verse and solemn energy with the best technique of anyone writing in Britain now

Peter Porter

For a large number of writers... the decisive influence

James Fenton

Fuller has continued to write as no one doubts he can: with dry urbanity and unflappable abundance

Guardian

In the clicking of his faultless rhyme [he] captures mortality

Daily Telegraph

Fuller is a wondefully skilled craftsman and the grace and elegance of his style is at the service of not only a sharp wit and intelligence, but a great depth of feeling

Sunday Telegraph
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