A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens
Prompted by incidents from his life, the characters and plots of his novels, or their afterlife in other arts and cultural memory, these poems offer a series of intimate glimpses into Dickens’s place in the current poetic imagination.
Edited by award-winning poet and translator Peter Robinson, with an introduction by Adrian Poole, the anthology includes contributions from more than fifty poets, among them
| Moniza Alvi | Angela Leighton |
| Robyn Bolam | Jamie McKendrick |
| Alison Brackenbury | Paul Muldoon |
| Fred D’Aguiar | Sean O’Brien |
| Gerald Dawe | Deryn Rees-Jones |
| Maura Dooley | Peter Riley |
| Ian Duhig | Carol Rumens |
| Elaine Feinstein | Elizabeth Smither |
| John Fuller | C. K. Stead |
| Philip Gross | George Szirtes |
| John Hegley | Jeffrey Wainwright |
Cost: £10.00 + £1 post and packing ISBN: 978-1-901677-78-2 120 pages
Launch Events
London: 4th October 2012, Foundling Museum, London 6.00-8.00pm
