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Author Bowen, Phil, 1949- author.

Title A gallery to play to : the story of the Mersey Poets / Phil Bowen
Edition Rev., 2nd ed
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Title Page; Contents; Author's Note; Introduction; 1: The Fifties and the Beginning of the Liverpool Scene; 2: Roger McGough 1937-1958; 3: Adrian Henri 1932-1956; 4: Liverpool 1957-1961; 5: Brian Patten 1946-1961; 6: 1961-1968; 7: The End of the Sixties; 8: The Seventies; 9: The Eighties; 10: The Nineties; 11: The Noughties; Bibliography; Index
Summary 'A Gallery to Play' to is an intimate account of the lives and careers of the poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten. With unparalleled access to the three writers, Phil Bowen has written an fascinating book for anyone interested in poetry, popular culture and society over the last forty years
Notes Previously published: Stride Publications, 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index
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Subject Patten, Brian, 1946-
McGough, Roger
Henri, Adrian.
Henri, Adrian -- Criticism and interpretation
McGough, Roger -- Criticism and interpretation
Patten, Brian, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Henri, Adrian fast
McGough, Roger fast
Patten, Brian, 1946- fast
Subject English poetry -- England -- Liverpool -- History and criticism
Poets, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Liverpool
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry
Intellectual life
Literature
Poets, English
Poets, English -- Homes and haunts
SUBJECT Liverpool (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Liverpool (England) -- In literature
Liverpool (England) -- Poetry
Subject England -- Liverpool
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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