Overview
The fifth Carcanet collection from the man behind Stand magazine and Northern House books explores displacement and growing older.Author Biography
Jon Glover was born in Sheffield in 1943. He grew up in Surrey/South London and moved to study in Leeds in 1962. Apart from a crucial year in America in 1966-67, and many summers in Upstate New York, he has lived in Leeds and Bolton, Lancashire, ever since. He has written four books published by Carcanet and two pamphlets of poems. He has edited with Kathryn Jenner The Complete Poems of Jon Silkin (Northern House/Carcanet, 2015).