The Descent into the Cave and other Poems
Kirkup, James
| Publication Date | 1957 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket |
| SKU | 24733 |
| Notes | Black boards with printed green label and silver titles to spine. Some age toning to endpapers and some slight, scattered foxing to prelims and closed page edges. /dust jacket is tanned to spine and has a couple of short closed tears. Clean and sound. |
Description
Hardback. 109pp. First edition. This is James Kirkup’s 5th collection. A prolific poet he was the first Gregory Poetry Fellow at Leeds University and as such he was first resident university poet in the UK. In 1977 Kirkup’s poem ‘The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name’ was published in Gay News and was the subject of Whitehouse v Lemon, the last successful prosecution under the Blasphemy laws in England.
