The Lower Reaches

by Martin Anderson

Overview

The Lower Reaches is framed within precise geography, the Lower Hope region of the Thames estuary where the author was born and grew up beside a river on which "the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empire" floated. Anderson lived for decades in the Far East. His meditation interrogates the formation of national identity and freights with poignant significance the old maxim that so much of British history happened overseas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848613119
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	06/17/2013
Series:	Shearsman Chapbook
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.08(d)

About the Author

Martin Anderson spent many years living and teaching in the Far East before returning recently to his native England. He still visits the University of the Philippines, Diliman, as a professorial lecturer however, to offer courses in creative writing, modernism and modern British poetry. Most of his collections of poetry since the 1990s have been published in America, or by Shearsman in the UK.