Love in Another Language

Overview

In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition. His Collected Poems draws on eight previous publications and includes a section of new work. Davis has also established himself as 'the leading translator of Persian literature in our time' (Washington Post) and this volume includes a selection of his celebrated translations.

Reviews

"Our finest translator of Persian poetry." —Times Literary Supplement

"It is marvelous to find a poet whose poetry lives through its metre. His handling of it is masterful, and you are never aware of the effort. And the language is exact but relentless, like the perceptions . . . Davis is one of the best poets around." —Thom Gunn

"The leading translator of Persian literature in our time." —The Washington Post

Author Biography

Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1945. After graduating from King's College, Cambridge he taught in various places including Iran, where he lived for eight years. He was Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Durham and Newcastle from 1985 to 1987. With his wife Afkham Darbandi he translated Attar's The Conference of the Birds for Penguin Classics.