Michael Laskey Thinking Happiness Signed Ivan Lalic Poetry Literature UK 1991
Michael Laskey THINKING OF HAPPINESS Peterloo Poets, U.K ., 1991. First edition. Paperback, fine copy. Size: 21,4 x 13,7 cm. Pp. 64. Cover illustration : ’The beach, Southwold ’ by Margaret Green. On the cover of the book there is a sticker with the recommendation of POETRY BOOK SOCIETY. The copy is inscribed by the author, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic: ‘’For Ivan / with envy a / best wishes / Michael / Aldeburg , ‘ 93‘’ . For condition see photos/scans.
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Michael George Laskey (born in 1944) is a poet and editor, and tutor with many years experience of promoting contemporary poetry. In 1989, he founded the international Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, and subsequently became chairman of The Poetry Trust (the organisation which runs the Festival). In 1991, with Roy Blackman he founded the poetry magazine Smiths Knoll, and since 2002 has edited it (with Joanna Cutts).In 2005 he was awarded an Arts Council International Writing Fellowship at the Banff Centre in Canada. Thinking of Happiness is the first complete collection, altruistic, tolerant and witty poems that, despite the difficult moments, the author puts in the foreground and thus showed a tendency to happiness, and on it can be seen even in the title of this book.
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Ivan V. Lalic (1931 – 1996) was one of the most significant Serbian poets writing after World War II with a reputation as one of the finest European poets of his time. Also one of the leading poets of contemporary neosymbolism poetry in Serbia. He had also been writing essays and literary critics and versifying English and French poetry into Serbian language. Lalic edited few antologies of poetry. He was sincerly appreciated among colleague poets of his time all over the world as it can be seen in many inscriptions wrote to him on books he received as sign of respect and appreciation.
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