Ancient Sunlight - by Stephen Watts (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Filled with true, resonant stories of East London life from the ancient to the modern. Ancient Sunlight focuses most intently on the dying habits of the 20th-century as they are swept aside by an onslaught of gentrification; only the latest development in the story of Whitechapel, the first stop east of the heart of London. Stephen Watts steps into the histories of his home borough and finds his way through two thousand years of incredible change.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The poems of "Ancient Sunlight" range in theme and space from the inner East End of London where the poet has lived for over thirty years with its complex richnesses of cultures and the often brutal pains of its regeneration, to great European cities such as Prague and the Italian mountains of his family origins. It is a poetry that marries personal acuity with deep communal awareness, reflecting his work as a poet in schools, hospitals, galleries, drop-in centers, urban and moorland fastnesses, and the wilder places of the human heart. This is a generous, passionate poetry of affirmation and anger for those excluded by, or on the margins of, our drunkenly material literature and society."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"His particular way of interlocking direct delineation of condition, and richly robed ceremony, is unique. You get the classic song and the social worker s report at the same time." Peter Riley, fortnightlyreview.co.uk"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Stephen Watts is a poet, translator and editor. His previous works include "The Lava s Curl "(1990), "Gramsci & Caruso" (2003), "The Blue Bag" (2004), "Mountain Language" (2008) and "Journey Across Breath "(2011). Well respected as a translator, particularly of poets living in exile, his own work has been translated into many languages and valued beyond his mother tongue."
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