James Lasdun was born in London in 1958 and now lives in the US. His poetry collections include A Jump Start (Secker & Warburg, 1987), The Revenant (1995), Landscape with Chainsaw (2001), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and Water Sessions (2012), all published by Cape Poetry, and Bluestone: New and Selected Poems (2015, Farrar Straus, Giroux). He has published several novels, including...
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